Hardware passthrough without shutdown on guest

[m_elias]

I'm hoping there's a way to allow hard drive passthrough to a vm without needing to shutdown and startup the vm. In my case, I'd like to get away from having to reboot my linux server vm. Searching didn't return much info other than I need to shutdown the vm before the setting takes effect. Anyone have a workaround?

 

[malakatronis]

Have you looked at http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Hotadd_pci_devices#Add_a_disk ? Maybe you could hotplug a scsi disk drive from qemu monitor that way.

I haven't tested it myself, though.

 

[m_elias]

I think I'll probably just run a samba server on the proxmox host then instead of needing to pass-through to a vm.