cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100
Thought I’d create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people’s pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.
Boxes doesn’t seem to expose it unfortunately (Par for the course, being a Gnome app). virt-manager seems like a better option in that case, you can share an entire drive from the host to the VM, or if the hardware allows it the SATA controller itself and let the VM manage the entire thing.
Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/kvm/comments/klpyg2/how_can_i_use_my_windows_hard_disk/
The only VM stuff I’m actually running is Proxmox, and while it all uses the same underlying kernel VM stuff, the UI is entirely different. In my case I’ve got my router running as a VM, and I’m handing off the network adapter itself to the VM, it’s entirely unusable by the host OS. So while I know the functionality is there, the specific software side I’ve got no experience with.