[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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