How to use unassigned devices-drive as primary vdisk in Windows VM

[deebeo]

Hi Everyone, 

 

I would like to use the Win11 Installation on my PC in two ways

1. Boot directly to Windows 

2. Boot to unraid and start same Windows in a VM

 

In order to realise 2. I need some kind of way to use the Windows HD as a primary Vdisk in the VM configuration.

 

I already read that the disk needs to be mounted, which it is. Do I need to put the device or only the partition into the vdisk definition? What kind of Vdisk Bus do I have to use? 

 

Right now im getting the error message

 

Cannot access storage file '/mnt/disks/50026B7684AE8FDD-part3': No such file or directory

 

Im guessing "disk type='file'" my be wrong?

 

Any Help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Here is the VM config I tried last: 

  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/>
      <source file='/mnt/disks/50026B7684AE8FDD-part3/'/>
      <target dev='hdc' bus='sata'/>
      <boot order='1'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='2'/>
    </disk>

Here ist the definition of my drive:

Edited October 27, 2022 by deebeo

[deebeo]

this seems to do the trick: 

  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator>
    <disk type='block' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/>
      <source dev='/dev/nvme1n1' index='2'/>
      <backingStore/>
      <target dev='hdc' bus='sata'/>
      <boot order='1'/>
      <alias name='sata0-0-2'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='2'/>
    </disk>

 unfortunately windows is all going crazy with security problems and is also missing internet. Probably due to missing virtio drivers. will try do install them during normal boot,

[JorgeB]

If it's an NVMe device just pass it through to the VM.

[deebeo]

Thanks for the heads-up will try this later.