I have a couple of SATA disks (software RAID on some partitions) with a system that has become unreliable on them. I plan to add more disks and install a new system on them (Debian wheezy). I will still need to run things on the old OS (simultaneously running the new OS) to migrate. Is there a way I can use the 2 old physical disks in a VM? How? Searching suggests that I can't simply say -hda /dev/sdc. There are some references to using virtio, but it isn't clear to me if this would enable me to use the physical disk as is. Thanks for any help. cc's appreciated, though I'm subscribed with my old edress. Ross Boylan-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html