On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:58:06AM -0600, Blake McBride wrote: > Greetings, > > I am using Virtual Machine Manager on a 64 bit LinuxMint 17.1 host. The > host has a second physical SCSI drive (/dev/sdb) that I want a Windows 7 VM > to use. I am booting from a CDROM ISO image. The system boots fine but > the Windows installs keeps saying that it sees no hard disk. > > The host is a local / desktop machine with X. > > What I have tried so far: > > 1. Under Managed or other existing storage I put: > /dev/sdb > Device Type: SCSI > cache mode: default > Storage format raw > > I made sure I had write access to that device: > chmod 666 /dev/sdb > > I also tried: chown me /dev/sdb > > 2. Under Connection Details / storage I added > Storage pool type: disk > Target path: /dev > Source path: /dev/sdb > Volume name: sdb > Max capacity: 465GB > Allocation: 465GB > > I have tried everything I can think of but the Windows install keeps saying > no storage device. You'd be better off using the libvirt tools to see how the disk is being passed to the guest, ie: virsh dumpxml guestname virsh edit guestname Most likely Windows doesn't have the right driver but it's hard to tell without seeing the libvirt XML. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
