Need help mounting a usb drive on windows 10

[clipod]

I have a weird situations going on. I have a usb passport drive which is formatted with NTFS and I have connected to my proxmox server. when I do lsblk on proxmox its mounted at "/dev/sdb1".



When I configure a VM in the config file, I have entered the below line in my config file.

virtio2: /dev/sdb1

This actually works when I configure it to a ubuntu VM and I can see the drive and everything



When I configure this to my windows VM, it will not show up. I have installed virtio drivers and it shows up in my DISKPART.




but it doesn't shown under This PC section.




Is there something that I am missing? I am a newbie with proxmox. Appreciate any help here.

 

[fschauer]

It seems like the drive does get recognized by Windows, as it shows up in diskpart.
Did you try assigning a drive letter to the desired partition? You can do that with diskpart:

First list your volumes

list volume

Then select your desired volume

select volume <volume number>

And finally assign a drive letter

assign letter=f

 

[clipod]

Its not showing up in the "list volume" command.



For connecting to windows, did I do this right? Or should I configure it differently on the proxmox config file.

virtio2: /dev/sdb1

 

[Neobin]

Did you already try to passthrough the whole device (/dev/sdb), instead of the partition (/dev/sdb1)?

Also, better use a more persistent path in/for the long term:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM)

 

[clipod]

Did you already try to passthrough the whole device (/dev/sdb), instead of the partition (/dev/sdb1)?

Also, better use a more persistent path in/for the long term:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM)

I tried passing the whole device. It asks me to format which I cannot do because it has data in it. I tried hardware passthrough like you mentioned in the link but I want to be able to access the drive across VM's (windows and linux) same time.

 

[Neobin]

I tried hardware passthrough like you mentioned in the link

That wiki article describes exactly what you are already doing with:

virtio2: /dev/sdb1

I only mentioned it, so that you can read how to get a more persistent path for this method.

I want to be able to access the drive across VM's (windows and linux) same time.

This will, sooner or later, corrupt your data and maybe even the whole filesystem!

 

[clipod]

That wiki article describes exactly what you are already doing with:

I only mentioned it, so that you can read how to get a more persistent path for this method.



This will, sooner or later, corrupt your data and maybe even the whole filesystem!

Oh thanks. I didn't know about this. Right now its mounted on proxmox and 2 Ubuntu VM's at the same time and I was able to access without much challenges. I though this virtio driver will help create an abstraction to share drives, just like sharing a CPU across VM's. Didn't know it will create such consequences.