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

[Blake McBride]

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 at redhat.com>
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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