Windows guest access question

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Hi!
A question. I need to give a win guest direct access to some drives / partitions that contain data. In xen i think it was done by adding them as removable drives if i remember correctly.

But hw do i accomplish this with proxmox?
 
baserz said:
Hi!
A question. I need to give a win guest direct access to some drives / partitions that contain data. In xen i think it was done by adding them as removable drives if i remember correctly.

But hw do i accomplish this with proxmox?
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see 'man qm' or add it them in the config file, see /etc/qemu-server/VMID.conf
 
I managed to raed an older post before that covered it so sorry for bothering you BUT ;)

It left a followup question wich i had more problems searching an answer for.

I need to add 5 physical discs. As far as i can see only 2 ide slots are available. so instead of qm .. ide0 i can just add these as welle with scsi0, 1, 2, 3 etc?
 
baserz said:
I managed to raed an older post before that covered it so sorry for bothering you BUT ;)

It left a followup question wich i had more problems searching an answer for.

I need to add 5 physical discs. As far as i can see only 2 ide slots are available. so instead of qm .. ide0 i can just add these as welle with scsi0, 1, 2, 3 etc?
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you can assign up to 4 IDE devices. SCSI does not work on windows, but VIRTIO can be used for assigning more devices. just search the forum for infos about using virtio for disk on windows.
 
Ok, ive tried scsi now on my guest(win xp) and it worked atleast while during my tests. BUT tried switching to virtio on my test disk (removed the scsi1 from webamin then ran qm set 101 -virtio1 /dev/sdb ) and it pops up correctly in webadmin, but i cannot find the drive in the xp guest at all.

I found some drivers on linux-kvm for win guests earlier wich i noticed later i didnt need to make scsi work (was detected as lsi adapter) and i thought perhaps it was needed here. But nothing abaout the virtio drive seems to popup in devicemanager or computermanager.

Are there anything special needed to get virtio devices up and running?


PS: Proxmox is by far the best virtualization solution ive tried performancewise atleast(havent tried it enough yet for stability opinion).
Its conciderably better than xenserver and it runs laps around hyper-v on my hw. Cant compare to vmware esx / esxi since my hardware @ home doesnt play well with vmware. So gratz to you guys, proxmox seems awesome sofar.
 
Update

I tried to do the same thing in win 7 guest using 2k8 drivers. And that seems to work nice. Strange that xp cant even detect the virtio hw
 
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