[CentOS] Assign external esata drive to KVM
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca
Sat Oct 27 01:24:49 UTC 2012
On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 17:32 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Disks don't have labels, partitions do. You don't see a partition in
> the KVM guest because the guest is trying to read a partition table from
> inside the partition that you're exporting.
Doh! I should have known that.
> Instead, use one of the IDs in /dev/disk/by-id. You should see an ID
> that indicates the disk's model and serial number, which is usable for
> your purpose.
Most awesome - worked! Thanks a lot for the solution.
NB: I did see the disk IDs when I was trying to fix the problem myself
and before I emailed the list. But, for some reason or another I didn't
actually give it a go.
Regards,
Ranbir
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