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How to add disk to VM? Strange

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I have a 120 gig drive assigned to a VW and its working great. Linux VM.

I have a 3TB drive, also on the UnRAID server formatted ext4.  The running VW cannot see the 3TB disk ( disk -l )

How do I add another disk ( not combined with the 120gig, just as a separate drive mounted as /video ) to an existing VM?

 

Thanks

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Hello,

 

I am in a bit of a pinch to get this working.

I have a single 3TB drive waiting to be added to an existing VW ( Linux VM ) and cannot figure out how to do this.

It shows up as disk3 ( /mnt/disk3 )

I can put this in the advanced setting on the VW, but I can never see it in the running VM with fdisk

 

I must be missing something.

 

Thoughts or assistance? 

 

Thanks

Hello,

 

I am in a bit of a pinch to get this working.

I have a single 3TB drive waiting to be added to an existing VW ( Linux VM ) and cannot figure out how to do this.

It shows up as disk3 ( /mnt/disk3 )

I can put this in the advanced setting on the VW, but I can never see it in the running VM with fdisk

 

I must be missing something.

 

Thoughts or assistance? 

 

Thanks

You cannot add an array disk to a VM like this.    If you want to pass a physical disk to a VM it must not be part of the array and you need to pass the physical device (e.g. of the form /dev/sdX).
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Thanks.

It is not part of an array.

Just a disk that is free and not in use.

 

It shows up as /dev/disk3

 

Under the VM, in advanced mode, under second disk, it shows up as an  option , but I don't see it in the running VM after I start it.

 

Thoughts on how I can get this done?

 

detailed help really appreciated!

 

Mark

Thanks.

It is not part of an array.

Just a disk that is free and not in use.

 

It shows up as /dev/disk3

 

Under the VM, in advanced mode, under second disk, it shows up as an  option , but I don't see it in the running VM after I start it.

 

Thoughts on how I can get this done?

 

detailed help really appreciated!

 

Mark

That is strange - how is the disk connected?    I have no /dev/diskX type devices at all on my system.    I would expect it to show up as a /dev/sdX type device if it is connected by either SATA or USB.
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In the list of disks, Parity, then down the list, I may have it in the list.

 

Should I be removing it from that list so that it shows up as a /dev/sdx

If so, then how to I configure the VM to be able to see that disk?

 

Getting closer to a solution I think.

 

Let me know what you think.

 

Thanks much

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