Hello Emily, The reason I was specifying virtual hard drives and not partitions, is because ZFS can be more than just a file system sitting in a single partition. ZFS usually sits on the top of many hard drives and can organize them in many layouts (many acting like raid and more) for a vast variety of needs and specifications. Not knowing much about ZFS let alone the many functionalities it offers, I am trying to reproduce a virtual file server containing many hard drives so I can play around with different layouts and learn from it.
In VirtualBox, it is fairly straightforward to add new virtual hard drives to a VM when needed. I'm trying to do the same thing for a StandaloneHVM, but I have not found how to do that yet. How can I simulate a file server containing many hard drives in Qubes? -- Kind regards Lem On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 23:56:08 UTC-4, Emily wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lem Ming <rambo...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > To: qubes-users <qubes...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> > Subject: [qubes-users] How to add multiple virtual hard drive to a > StandaloneHVM > Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 16:58:08 -0700 (PDT) > > Hi all, > > I am new to Qubes OS. I would like to use StandaloneHVM to virtualize > FreeNAS fo > r learning purpose. I am looking for a way to add many virtual hard > drive to the VM so I can to play and learn about ZFS. > > How do I add multiple virtual hard drive to a StandaloneHVM? > > Kind regards, > Lem > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "qubes-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to qubes...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/008b0c33-f00f-4d50-aa3c-b30dca5673f9o%40googlegroups.com > > . > I'm sure there's a better/more straightforward way to do this, but off- > hand the two methods I know would be creating partitions either during > installation, or via live usb after installation. I don't have > particular experience with FreeNAS, but most modern installation > processes have the ability to create multiple partitions during > installation. Either way, start off with your choice of size of private > memory cumulatively, then partition as necessary. To do via live OS > which was my initial instinct use: > > qvm-start --cdrom=$BlockorisoID $VMNAME > ie, qvm-start --cdrom=sys-usb:1.5-4 FreeNAS > > Then use your choice of fdisk/parted/gparted/etc. > Make sure the iso is available as a block, or if you're willing to > accept the risk of USB passthrough, or trying to directly load through > another VM. > If you need to check available devices use qvm-device or derivatives. > > Let me know if you have any questions about this, or I'm always > appreciative of learning more efficient manners of task completion if > someone has a more efficient way to do this. > > Granted, you could also just attach them with qvm-device and label it > as persistent, so I guess in writing my response I may have found a > more efficient way to technically accomplish this, but using partitions > as opposed to additional persistent block devices just feels a lot more > proper to me. Less overlap of VMs. > > -- > Cordially, > > Emlay > She/Her/Hers > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/67d90ad3-ddad-4b2c-8ddf-a27ab2f6c7c0o%40googlegroups.com.
