libvirt users - Jun 2013 - Re: Using a Windows partition as libvirt media

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

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
>

On 06/13/2013 08:48 PM, Roland Giesler 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.
>>
If I'm not mistaken, the fact that it is only a partition (and not whole
disk), you cannot passthrough it to the guest as a lun, but that
shouldn't be a problem for you.
>> I tried with virt-manager, but the only options I have are
>>
>> * Local media
>> * Network install
>> * Network Boot
>> * Import Existing Disk Image
>>
You should be able to safely select the last option and
virt-{install,manager} will detect that it is a block device and use
<disk type='block' device='disk'> for the disk.

Martin
>> How can I do this?
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Roland Giesler
>>