On 08/14/2010 10:10 AM, Trever L. Adams wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am working on a project for my family. At the moment the only hardware > that we can get is the harddrives. > > Question: Is it possible to give control of these over to the > virtualized systems in such a way that they can later be used as a real > hard drive in a real setup, just plug and play? (At least some of these > will be doing this, others will just be moved to less crowded vm hosts.) > If so, how? How do I keep the host OS from detecting and using them. > (All machines, vm and actual, are/will be Fedora.) > > Thank you, > Trever Adams Since I received no answer, I think I have figured this out. Documenting it on the list for others. This is not a recommended configuration (qemu) due to the fact that if the host operating system touches the file system, corruption can happen. How do you do it: Make sure that the host does not touch it. Disable the drive (no entries) in /etc/fstab Use filter in lvm.conf filter = ["r|sdX"] where X is any number used directly with qemu. This could be sdg for example. Use multiple entries for multiple drives. In Qmu/Virtmanager: Set the drive image to the raw harddrives (not partitions), such as /dev/sdg. There you are. Trever -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
