[mythtv-users] Hard drive selection when Mythtv is in a VM
Hika van den Hoven
hikavdh at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 19:02:39 UTC 2018
Hoi Jim,
Thursday, January 4, 2018, 6:54:45 PM, you wrote:
>
> I`ll chime in, I`m running a centos 7 kvm setup, should do it in
> a container but ive been lazy. The mythtv is a kvm vm with a whole
> disk passed through for storage, that way I can mount my disk
> outside of myth if needed etc. You can do that with a vm disk but
> just easier for me if i need to do it in the future etc. __
>
> I’d need at lot more research on adding the extra drive just for
> the VM to record on. Not sure how to pass the whole drive through
> to the VM. I think I still have to create VDI pointing to that hard
> drive. More work, but I think it’s worth a test.
>
> Jim A
>
See my earlier message
From the manual 9.8.1.1 "Access to entire physical hard disk":
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /path/to/file.vmdk
-rawdisk /dev/sda
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