Re: Connecting to a physical drive

[Blake McBride <blake1024@xxxxxxxxx>]

Found the problem.  If you wait a couple of hours - it works.  After it reboots, it's fine.

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Blake McBride <blake1024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'd like to add that the drive (/dev/sdb) initially had no partition table.  I rebooted the VM.  The next time around, the drive had a partition table so it seems it can write to the drive.  Still stuck at "Copying Windows files" though.

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Blake McBride <blake1024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks.  I tried booting the real machine with the Windows CD and it can see the drives (i.e. shouldn't need any additional drivers).  I then created a new VM with KVM.  I tried numerous drive types (SCSI, Virtio SCSI Disk, Virtio SCSI Lun, Virtio Disk) that did not work, but SATA Disk did!  when I set the VM to SATA Disk the install sees it.  I selected the disk and told Windows to install there.  It accepted the selection and went to the next screen.  The problem now is that it stays on:

Copying Windows files (0%) ...

forever.  It is hung there.  

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Blake McBride

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.


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