Hi,
apologies if it is a stupid question, I am a newbie to both proxmox and KVM. Is it possible to use an existing physical block for creating a VM?
A bit of context:
I am in the process of consolidating all home PCs into one Threadripper system. on my old PC I have one windows and one hackintosh installations plus I will need to create another Windows machine to replace my wife's.
The three machines already exist and Ideally (maybe just because I am a newbie) I would like to just "execute" those instances inside a VM in the threadripper system. The systems are expendable, meaning if I cannot make the virtual hardware such that I can boot those windows / osx systems and modify the configuration and I happen to brick them, no problems. I would have thought All I needed to do was to to indicate the path to the disk in the hard disk dialogue box and specify it was a raw device but I did not find a way to do that.
in alternative, if that was not possible, I could do the normal installation but, if possible, I would like to assing a whole hard disk to the VM rather than just a space on a shared disk, is there a way to do that? if so I was not immediately able to see how to do it.
thank you in advance for any help you could provide.
apologies if it is a stupid question, I am a newbie to both proxmox and KVM. Is it possible to use an existing physical block for creating a VM?
A bit of context:
I am in the process of consolidating all home PCs into one Threadripper system. on my old PC I have one windows and one hackintosh installations plus I will need to create another Windows machine to replace my wife's.
The three machines already exist and Ideally (maybe just because I am a newbie) I would like to just "execute" those instances inside a VM in the threadripper system. The systems are expendable, meaning if I cannot make the virtual hardware such that I can boot those windows / osx systems and modify the configuration and I happen to brick them, no problems. I would have thought All I needed to do was to to indicate the path to the disk in the hard disk dialogue box and specify it was a raw device but I did not find a way to do that.
in alternative, if that was not possible, I could do the normal installation but, if possible, I would like to assing a whole hard disk to the VM rather than just a space on a shared disk, is there a way to do that? if so I was not immediately able to see how to do it.
thank you in advance for any help you could provide.
