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Mapping a raw disk to guest VM?

asked 2013-10-22 08:50:48 -0600

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updated 2013-10-25 16:48:20 -0600

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Is there a way to map a host(KVM) local SATA disk to a guest in OpenStack? (Bypassing Cinder, I guess)

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answered 2015-11-17 12:23:12 -0600

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updated 2015-11-17 12:24:18 -0600

yes, using ephemeral disk

When you create a flavor you can specify a ephemeral disk. Then when the instance is launched, select the flavor with the ephemeral disk. The guest VM should see a /dev/sdb device.

nova flavor-create --ephemeral 10 --swap 1024 --is-public True testflavor5 64 1024 30 4

run lvmdiskscan to view the device or fdisk -l

lvmdiskscsan

fdisk -l

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This does not map a raw physical disk to the guest. The switch "--ephemeral 10" allocates 10GB of the local disk to the node as an "ephemeral disk". To the guest it appears as a normal disk, but on the host it is a file.

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