Mount vm image disk to another vm

[raj]

Hi Guys,

Just wanted to know if the following is possible?

I have a windows vm and the disk is on an iscsi lun.

If i switch that vm off, is there any way to mount that disk on another vm.

With physical machine, you would just pull the drive out of the original machine and add it to the second machine and are able to read the data on that drive or write to it.

Just want to know if that is possible.

Cheer,

Raj

 

[raj]

Anyone any ideas pls?

Cheers,

Raj

 

[udo]

Hi Guys,

Just wanted to know if the following is possible?

I have a windows vm and the disk is on an iscsi lun.

If i switch that vm off, is there any way to mount that disk on another vm.

With physical machine, you would just pull the drive out of the original machine and add it to the second machine and are able to read the data on that drive or write to it.

Just want to know if that is possible.

Cheer,

Raj

Hi,
of course - simply edit the config-file of the "another vm" and add the disk of the switched off VM like:

...
ide0: local:110/vm-110-disk-1.raw
ide1: iscsi_oa:vm-200-disk-1
...

Power on VM 110 and you see the disk of VM 200 as second disk on VM 110.

Be carefull to use the disk only at one running VM at a time.

Udo