Pass-through NTFS drive?

[3TeK]

Hey guys,

I just setup ProxMox on my quad-core server and was wondering if there was anyway I could setup a couple internal SATA drives (NTFS formatted w/data on it) to passthrough PM and be dedicated/shared to my Server 2008 VM i'm running.

Thanks.

 

[tom]

try adding it using the VMID.conf file (see 'man qm'), something like this:

virtio2: /dev/sdb2

adapt this to meet your setup. make sure you poweroff and start your windows VM, a reboot is not enough to apply changes. inside windows you need to install the virtio drivers.

does this help?

 

[3TeK]

It's a start. Thanks for the help. I was going to work on it while I was at the office, but forgot to plug my drives back in, lol.


Thanks.

 

[3TeK]

Hopefully this will work. Thanks again.

 

[3TeK]

Do you know where I can get a driver for the VirtIO for Windows 7 64-bit? I got it to install, but i get a code 10 error.

Thanks

 

[tom]

http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Paravirtualized_Block_Drivers_for_Windows
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Paravirtualized_Network_Drivers_for_Windows

direct link:
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/

 

[ke5eua]

I tried the following and got the drives to show up in both XP and Win 7 guest machines. My problem is one of my drives is a 2TB and it doesn't show the partitions correctly. Is there a workaround for this? I need my windows guests to see the 2TB, and there is over 1.5TB of data on it already so reformatting is not an option.

I have tried it in IDE, SCSI, and VIRTIO mode and all the same results. I can mount the drive and read it and the partition table is correct on other pc's and ubuntu boxes.

Here is a screen shot of my XP machine:



My fdisk output of the drive:

 

[ke5eua]

Never mind, I seem to have solved my own problem.

I was using virtio2: /dev/sdd1 and it was giving me problems. I changed it to virtio2: /dev/sdd and it works as needed.