libvirt users - Sep 2013 - Is it possible to attach a harddisk to an ESX node

Hi,

Is it possible to attach a harddisk to an ESX node later after
creating/defining it?
If yes, can anyone tell me how to do it?

Regards,
Varun

On 26.09.2013 05:50, varun bhatnagar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to attach a harddisk to an ESX node later after
> creating/defining it?
> If yes, can anyone tell me how to do it?
> 
> Regards,
> Varun
> 
Unfortunately, this piece of functionality is not implemented yet.
However, if you want to do a cold plug (that is disk will be visible at
next start of the domain), you can 'virsh edit $dom' and write the
appropriate XML snippet by hand.

Michal

P.S.: Patches are welcome :)

Thanks a ton Michal for the reply. I tried your suggestion but a message
popped out when was trying to save the xml file which said: "Editing of
already existing domain is not supported"... :(
Why I want this is because the node which is getting created is creating
empty vmdk image and if I try to boot with it, it says No Operating System
found, which is quite valid. I want to attach my vmdk which has the OS in
it.

I am just wondering how others are creating VMs and using it with
libvirt...!!

Is there any suggestion how I can boot my node?

Regards,
Varun



On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Michal Privoznik
<mprivozn@redhat.com>wrote:
> On 26.09.2013 05:50, varun bhatnagar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to attach a harddisk to an ESX node later after
> > creating/defining it?
> > If yes, can anyone tell me how to do it?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Varun
> >
>
> Unfortunately, this piece of functionality is not implemented yet.
> However, if you want to do a cold plug (that is disk will be visible at
> next start of the domain), you can 'virsh edit $dom' and write the
> appropriate XML snippet by hand.
>
> Michal
>
> P.S.: Patches are welcome :)
>
>