I am using virtualbox and accessing three 2 tb entire raw disks in a Windows 7 ultimate host. One day, the guest (Nexenta) was stopped and when I restarted it all three disks are showing as unavailable. Is there anyway to recover from this? I would really like to not loose all my families pictures for the last 7 years. I am wondering if I use the command to from virtualbox to recreated the drives. Would that mess up the data? Any help would be greatly appreciated. There is an irritating lack of help on Nexenta and Virtualbox forms. Lots of views and not even a "your probably screwed" message. Anyway, I would appreciate any help. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Am 31.12.10 06:06, schrieb Jeff Ruetten:> I am using virtualbox and accessing three 2 tb entire raw disks in a Windows 7 ultimate host. One day, the guest (Nexenta) was stopped and when I restarted it all three disks are showing as unavailable. Is there anyway to recover from this? I would really like to not loose all my families pictures for the last 7 years. I am wondering if I use the command to from virtualbox to recreated the drives. Would that mess up the data? Any help would be greatly appreciated. There is an irritating lack of help on Nexenta and Virtualbox forms. Lots of views and not even a "your probably screwed" message. Anyway, I would appreciate any help.Jeff, could you please be more specific, as of how you used the "raw disks"? Did you connect them via iSCSI? Or do you run Nexenta inside VB and share out via iSCSI from there? In any way - I''d stand back from using any disk-related command inside VB until you exactly know what is going on! Cheers, budy
On Dec 30, 2010, at 9:06 PM, Jeff Ruetten wrote:> I am using virtualbox and accessing three 2 tb entire raw disks in a Windows 7 ultimate host. One day, the guest (Nexenta) was stopped and when I restarted it all three disks are showing as unavailable. Is there anyway to recover from this? I would really like to not loose all my families pictures for the last 7 years. I am wondering if I use the command to from virtualbox to recreated the drives. Would that mess up the data? Any help would be greatly appreciated. There is an irritating lack of help on Nexenta and Virtualbox forms. Lots of views and not even a "your probably screwed" message. Anyway, I would appreciate any help.From my perspective, I have no idea how you have configured the thing. In general, if a virtual environment does not provide the LUNs to a guest OS, then that is the place to start. So far, I see nothing in this post that relates to ZFS (or Nexenta). Perhaps a picture will help? -- richard