Hi folks,

 

I've followed spaceinvaders useful guide (8:00 minutes in) but can't figure out why this isn't working for me. When I add the ID and save, it hangs and won't update. 

 

any ideas what i'm doing wrong?

 

e.g. 

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-My_Passport_25E2_57583631413138354B324554

 

Is the disk mounted by unassigned devices?

yeah, I can enable passthrough by adding /dev/sdX - this had been my workaround but recently Windows stopped recognising the partition when the drive was re-attached (even after updating /dev/sdX in the 2nd vdisk settings) and it required formatting in diskmgmt every time it was connected

i've also tried different USB drives, can't get any to work with /dev/disk/by-id/

If I have mounted a drive with unassigned devices I can't hand it over to a VM. Click unmount in unassigned devices and try your passthrough again.

still no luck adding with /dev/disk/by-id/, but mounted or unmounted I can add it to VM using /dev/sdp or /dev/sdp1 but Windows 10 will not show the partition I created the last time it was attached, even unRaid sees the partition 'DB'

 

 

Windows just shows 'disk1' 

 

 

Can you assign a drive letter to that partition in Windows? Rightclick on the partition and select "change drive letter or paths" and choose a letter that isn't in use by any other device or network share.

yes that fixed the issue with the partition not showing - thanks 

 

any other ideas about the disk/by-id issue? 

I never attached a USB device this way. Only SSDs or harddrives I attached by-id. For USB devices like mouse and keyboard, the VM settings page option to add them never had any issues with that. The Libvirt-Hotplug Addon also does it's job if I needed it. Best option still is to passthrough a dedicated USB controller to a VM to have plug and play function like on a real system.

appreciate your help, will get this set-up properly