RE: [libvirt] Mounting a bare-metal folder as a drive

["Neil Aggarwal" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm attempting to ad a folder located on the bare-metal machine to the VM and have it

> appear as a drive (such as HDD), is this possible?  I've looked over the documentation and it suggests this is only possible for USB

 

The RHEL Virtualization Guide says you can do it by creating a sparse file:

 

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualization_Guide/sect-Virtualization-Virtualized_block_devices-Adding_storage_devices_to_guests.html

 

    Neil

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