Pass through E-SATA question?

[marcthespot]

Hi all,

I'm thinking about trying out Proxmox. I have one question, say I create a Windows Virtual Machine using a virtual disk. Now I have two exteral e-Sata exteral drives is there anyway that I can somehow mount these external drives in the VM without making them virtual disks?

I know it can't be done in vmware.

 

[udo]

Hi,
you can pass through disks. Like
"ide1: sdb" in the config.
But is your e-sata-drives allways powered on? I'm not sure if the host reconice an drivechange during normal operations (depends on chipset?).

Udo

 

[marcthespot]

yes they are always powered on.

 

[tom]

follow Udo post, make sure you power off your VM before you add the disk. add the line to your /etc/qemu-server/VMID.conf.