<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm not looking to attach a new disk or a block deivice, this is a folder that is being mounted and used by the bare metal system that I'd like to pass into the VM. I'm thinking Samba may be the way to go, although there is a fair amount of overhead doing that. <br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8C000E">Adam Mooz</font></b><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#929292"><i><a href="mailto:Adam.Mooz@gmail.com">Adam.Mooz@gmail.com</a><br></i><i><a href="mailto:AdamMooz@me.com">AdamMooz@me.com</a></i></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#929292"><i><br></i></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#929292"><a href="http://www.AdamMooz.com">http://www.AdamMooz.com</a><br></font><br><br></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span> </div> <br><div><div>On 2009-11-11, at 3:26 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="906172520-11112009"><font size="2" face="Arial"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">> I'm attempting to ad a folder located on the bare-metal machine to the VM and have it </font></font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="906172520-11112009"><font size="2" face="Arial"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">> appear as a drive (such as HDD), is this possible? I've looked over the documentation and it suggests this is only possible for USB </font></font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="906172520-11112009"><font size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="906172520-11112009"><font size="2" face="Arial">The RHEL Virtualization Guide says you can do it by creating a sparse file:</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="906172520-11112009"><font size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="906172520-11112009"><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualization_Guide/sect-Virtualization-Virtualized_block_devices-Adding_storage_devices_to_guests.html">http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualization_Guide/sect-Virtualization-Virtualized_block_devices-Adding_storage_devices_to_guests.html</a></font></span></div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><span class="906172520-11112009"><font size="2" face="Arial"> Neil</font></span></div><br><p><font size="2">--<br>Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, <a href="http://unmeteredvps.net/">http://UnmeteredVPS.net</a><br>CentOS 5.4 VPS with unmetered bandwidth only $25/month!<br>7 day no risk trial, Google Checkout accepted</font> </p></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>