Physical Disk to Container

[rephormat]

I have searched google and the forums for any info to help me attach a physical drive to a container vm. More specifically I have an ubuntu container obtained from your downloads within the web interface. I have set this up to host files for my network using Samba. The problem is the majority of those files are on a seperate physical disk that was previously attached to another linux server doing the same thing. It is a standard partition with an EXT4 filesystem.

Is this possible? And if so can you provide steps to doing so?

I will update the wiki with any new info / experience I gain from this so that others can benefit.

 

[tom]

see http://wiki.openvz.org/Bind_mounts

do you use already veth on your container?

 

[rephormat]

see http://wiki.openvz.org/Bind_mounts

do you use already veth on your container?

Thank you for that wiki article. I will begin the setup this morning and post of my success or failure.

I am currently using venet. Should I be using veth? And if so why?

 

[tom]

Thank you for that wiki article. I will begin the setup this morning and post of my success or failure.

I am currently using venet. Should I be using veth? And if so why?

see http://wiki.openvz.org/Differences_between_venet_and_veth

 

[rephormat]

Updated wiki with Bind article on OpenVZ wiki.

Thanks for your help tom.

 

[rephormat]

OK. I was able to successfully bind mount a physical disk to my CT, but when I try doing so with a mount script I get the following error:

/usr/sbin/vzctl start 101
Starting container ...
Error exec /etc/vz/conf/101.mount: Permission denied
Error executing mount script /etc/vz/conf/101.mount
VM 101 start failed -

101.mount
--------------
#!/bin/bash
source /etc/vz/vz.conf
source ${VE_CONFFILE}
mount --bind /mnt/storage ${VE_ROOT}/mnt/storage
proxmox:/etc/vz/conf#

Where is the permissions problem?

 

[rephormat]

Error exec /etc/vz/conf/101.mount: Permission denied
Error executing mount script /etc/vz/conf/101.mount

After reviewing my script I determined that I forgot to put the execute permission on the script. After doing a "chmod +x 101.mount" command the error is no more.