Proxmox installation on primary HDD & Using Additional 3tb drive

[Flight5497]

Hi There,

I am new to the promox world, and I have a question.

At the moment I have a spare machine, it has a 500gb primary drive and 3tb Secondary Drive. Installing proxmox I do not have any problems with, it is more to the fact that at present the 3TB drive holds all my photos, music & general day to day digital content.

So my question is can I install proxmox on my primary HDD, and then get virtual machines I create to reference to and use the 3tb drive that as my personal files, as I do not want to use this drive for the virtual machine files themselves just as a shared storage resource, but in the same machine. Hopefully this makes sense.

I have trawled the internet, and cannot seem to find what I am looking for.

Kind Regards

 

[sgtfoo]

You can do this, but you must unplug the 3tb drive before/during install so as to not allow the installer to use the drive.

When you're done with installation, connect the 3tb drive and then you will be able to add it using command line ...

see http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/66...-a-drive-in-virtual-machine?p=37598#post37598