Virtual FAT into Proxmox through QEMU

[puntloos]

QEMU supports virtual FAT emulation, which takes a local folder and presents it as a drive, but the documents are quite fuzzy.

To my understanding, if I can only run qemu-system-x86_64 with the added parameter

-drive file=fat:/mnt/tmp

I am fairly sure that folder will show up as a drive.

But if I go to /etc/pve/lxc/105.conf and add:

args: -drive file=fat:/mnt/tmp

Nothing happens - at least if I do ps -w and fine the qemu commandline I don't see the -drive command.

What am I missing?

 

[puntloos]

and to add - it's not quite clear to me what happens even if I succeed passing the arguments. Maybe it's obvious but do I get a block device (name?) I can mount? Or?

 

[fiona]

Hi,
containers do not use QEMU at all, but LXC. So you cannot use QEMU arguments. There also is no args option for container configurations. Always use pct set <ID> --<option> <value> or same with qm set for VMs rather than modifying configuration files by hand, they will tell you early when an option doesn't exist or a value is invalid.

There are bind mounts and device mounts for containers:
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pct.html#_bind_mount_points
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pct.html#_device_mount_points