Is there an easy way to pass-through an LTO tape to a VM?

[PabloUserT38]

I need to pass-through an LTO tape drive to a VM.

I can only find this about tapes: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Tape_Drives, which shows a pretty convoluted way of doing it via iSCSI. However, that page states it's about Proxmox VE 4.0, so I was wondering if there's any easier way to pass-through an LTO tape drive to a VM in more recent versions of Proxmox VE.

I've tried using the same procedure as for disks, with the qm command, but I always get a message saying the device doesn't exist (it does...) I guess that won't work.

Thanks for any help.

 

[khe91]

Try a separate SAS PCIe hostadapter for the LTO and pass-through the PCIe device.

 

[PabloUserT38]

Thanks. I'll do that for now.