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

[Blake McBride]

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 at gmail.com> 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 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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>>
>
>
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