HDD mounting\passthrough

[Nixellion]

I've just installed proxmox on an SSD. I also have 2 other HDDs with data on them which I want to share with the rest of the network.

I thought about making a CT (File Server from Turnkey looks good), passing my HDDs to it and sharing it with other VMs\Containers and physical PCs using samba share.

How do I do that? I could not find anything like that in UI.

 

[wolfgang]

Hi

How do I do that? I could not find anything like that in UI.

This you have to do on the shell.
see man pct and see "Bind Mount Points"

 

[Nixellion]

Hi

This you have to do on the shell.
see man pct and see "Bind Mount Points"

Thanks. In general, what other approaches are there to achieve shared storage between VMs? I could just mount and share the drive from the host, does not sound like it's much of a hassle even if I needed to reinstall\restore the server?

 

[wolfgang]

You can use only bindmounts fore containers. Qemu is not capable to use it.
The most generic way is NFS.

 

[Nixellion]

Ok, simple question.

I have a container that I want to use as File Server. Serve NFS and Samba from it.

I have a spare drive WITH DATA on it, formatted as ext4. I can mount it on the host or unmount it.

How do I give access to this drive (or partition on it) to container permanently? So that this container will then be used to share this storage with other CTs and VMs

 

[wolfgang]

Mount the Disk on the host. insert it in the fstab.
Add the mountpoint to the lxcconfig.

pct set <vmid> --mp<X>  </path/on/host>,mp=</path/in/lxc>

For more options see

pct help set