Adding a Physical Disk to a Guest with Libvirt / KVM
It can't be done with virt-manager. That one took me a while to figure out. As far as I can tell, virt-manager works with storage pools. You can make a disk into a storage pool, but you can't add an existing disk directly to a VM.
Luckily the fix is easy: you add the disk to the domain's xml config
file by hand. So open up /etc/libvirt/qemu/${YOUR_VM}.xml
in your
favourite editor and add a <disk>
section to the <devices>
section:
<disk type='block' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw' />
<source dev='/dev/md/storage' />
<target dev='vdb' bus='virtio' />
</disk>
This will make the host's /dev/md/storage
available in the guest as
/dev/vdb
. After changing a domain's config by hand, you have to
reload the config by hand. Log in to your host and issue this command:
# virsh define /etc/libvirt/qemu/jetsetetser.xml
Domain jetser defined from /etc/libvirt/qemu/jetsetetser.xml
Here is a nice resource with more information about managing vms with libvirt.
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