Gentlemen:
On a sandbox I have two hard disks which have a 500Gb partition on each mounted on the host os Ubuntu 22.04 as /mnt/disk1 and /mnt/disk2
Is there a way I can map one vdi to each of these partitions/mount points?
The idea is to define these vdi's as storage for a guest VM (FreeBSD) I'll be creating on Ubuntu.
The goal is to create a mirrored disk setup in the VM/guest os
Is this even possible?
How to map disk partition as a VDI
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Re: How to map disk partition as a VDI
There are two ways to do this:
1. make two actual vdi files, one on /mnt/disk1 and the other on /mnt/disk2. This is the easiest way, and the easiest to back up the VM.
2. use Raw Disk Access (see the manual, chapter 9) to take the actual partitions away from the host and use them in the VM directly. Backing up the VM will be harder, and the data loss risk will be great if the host re-enumerates the disks differently one day. Raw Disk Access is experts-only and we don't tell folks how to do it on the forum.
1. make two actual vdi files, one on /mnt/disk1 and the other on /mnt/disk2. This is the easiest way, and the easiest to back up the VM.
2. use Raw Disk Access (see the manual, chapter 9) to take the actual partitions away from the host and use them in the VM directly. Backing up the VM will be harder, and the data loss risk will be great if the host re-enumerates the disks differently one day. Raw Disk Access is experts-only and we don't tell folks how to do it on the forum.