Roland Giesler
2013-Jun-13 18:50 UTC
Re: [libvirt-users] How to mount / use a hard disk partition for libvirt instead of created a new virtual disk
I change the topic to be more descriptive. I hope this doesn't break the message threading of this list! On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Roland Giesler <roland@giesler.za.net> wrote:> Surely there must be someone here that knows how to do this? Maybe > someone that has used some other partition type in this way? > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Roland Giesler <roland@giesler.za.net> wrote: >> I'm running Ubuntu desktop 12.10 with libvirt and virt-manager (gui). >> >> I have been led to believe that it is possible to use and existing partition >> as the disk storage volume for a virtual machine. >> >> The windows partition is /dev/sda2, but if I use fs: Pre-formatted Block >> Device I can select the partion. What I can't figure out is how to tell the >> vitual machine to use this volume. >> >> I tried with virt-manager, but the only options I have are >> >> * Local media >> * Network install >> * Network Boot >> * Import Existing Disk Image >> >> How can I do this? >> >> regards >> >> Roland Giesler >>