Re: Accessing external harddisk from windows guest

[Narcis Garcia]

I use Qemu 5.2.0 with following direct parameter to attach real block 
device to virtual environment:

-device virtio-scsi -drive file=/dev/sdX,media=disk,index=0

In your case, you could share unlocked filesystem as a network resource.

El 28/4/23 a les 19:38, famubu@rawtext.club ha escrit:
> Hi.
>
> I have windows 7 guest running on a linux (debian 11) host.
>
> I was trying to unlock a harddisk (WD) which was locked/encrypted with a
> windows-only tool.
>
> How can I expose the harddisk device to the windows guest?
>
> Ideally, I wanted to unlock the harddisk device from within the vm and somehow
> access the files in it from the linux host.
>
> Does anyone know how to do this?
> I've been scouring the internet for a long time, but found nothing that worked.
>
> Found posts like this[1] suggesting that sharing between windows guest and
> linux host is troublesome.
>
> I'm using virt-manager, if that can help.
>
> [1]: 
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/86071/use-virt-manager-to-share-files-between-linux-host-and-windows-guest

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Narcis Garcia