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Pass through a hard drive to a Windows VM


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How can I pass through a 3.5" hard drive that is connected to the motherboard directly to a Windows VM?

I need it to be RAW, I guess, because the drive is BitLocker-protected.

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I managed to answer my own question.

 

For future Unraiders:

  1. Open the terminal in Unraid.
  2. Enter ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/
  3. Look for the drive you want to mount and copy the name beginning with data... In my case ata-WDC_WD221KFGX-68B9KN0_... Don't forget to include the ata at the beginning.
  4. Edit your Windows VM
  5. Add a 2nd vDisk Location
    1. Set it to Manual
    2. Enter the full path to your drive. For example /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD221KFGX-68B9KN0...

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