ren88 Posted February 10, 2018 Posted February 10, 2018 i wondering which is better, i tried the plugin unassign device, im trying to connect a external hard drive in windows 10 vm
tdallen Posted February 10, 2018 Posted February 10, 2018 If you are trying to use the drive with Windows you’ll need NTFS...
SSD Posted February 11, 2018 Posted February 11, 2018 58 minutes ago, tdallen said: If you are trying to use the drive with Windows you’ll need NTFS... I'm assuming he means he's mounting a Linux disk that he will use primarily in the Windows VM. Not passing it through. 8 hours ago, ren88 said: i wondering which is better, i tried the plugin unassign device, im trying to connect a external hard drive in windows 10 vm XFS is still the unRaid default and is used to a much greater extent commercially. It is what I use. But BTRFS has some nice features including maintaining checksums on files. I don't think you'd make a mistake either way.
ren88 Posted February 11, 2018 Author Posted February 11, 2018 ok thanks, im testing it out the new file system = BTRFS, so how do i mount a hard drive in windows 10, just like in a real windows computer, instead of one hard drive mount a second hard drive in windows 10 vm
SSD Posted February 11, 2018 Posted February 11, 2018 So there are two ways to do this. One is to pass through a disk to Windows. That disk is then dedicated to the Windows VM. You would get the very best performance this way. You'd need to format with NTFS or some flavor of FAT. The other is to install as a UD in unRaid. Then locate it via smb and you can assign a drive letter to it. Performances is very good in my experience, as it is not going over a lan. The disk can be accessed from the server or any other computer on the network. You can implement security on the share to limit access if that is needed. You can use most and filesystem including BTRFS. Windows would just see it as a network volume and not care what is the underlying file system. This is how I have mine seed up. Works quite well.
ren88 Posted February 11, 2018 Author Posted February 11, 2018 thanks i will try your method = UD, is that a plugin
pwm Posted February 11, 2018 Posted February 11, 2018 4 hours ago, ren88 said: thanks i will try your method = UD, is that a plugin Yes - called Unassigned Devices.
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