[virt-tools-list] Connecting to a physical drive

[Blake McBride]

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.

Help would sure be appreciated!

Thanks.

Blake
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