Not so general KVM/Qemu question.

[PuppyHome]

Hi all.

I am an avid virtual machine user and KVM is my weapon of choice. But I was just thinking.

My Lenovo workstation is quite good at running VM's but the internal storage is quite small. I'd like to ask you guys: Is there a way to store all the data the VM needs to run/start up on an external SSD instead of locally on my hardware?

Or is it just easier to increase the internal storage sufficiently?

 

[CaffeineAddict]

I think it should work as long as mount path is same every time, as set in QEMU.
In virt-manager you can specify arbitrary path to qcow2 image by adding "Sata Disk" hardware.

 

[PuppyHome]

I think it should work as long as mount path is same every time, as set in QEMU.
In virt-manager you can specify arbitrary path to qcow2 image by adding "Sata Disk" hardware.

That was my train of thought too. Think I'd better proceed along these lines. Tomorrow, it's late already.

Thanks for that.

 

[f33dm3bits]

You can just create a filesystem on external storage and mount it somewhere and then under storage add a new storage pool and select that mount point.

 

[PuppyHome]

That is really helpfull thanks