Hi,
I installed OMV Plugin VirtualBox which worked for me. No installation troubles.
I want to held my VirtualBox images onto the drive, where OMV is installed as well (sda1) and not onto the RAID Storage (md123).
But I only can choose the Raid directory as storage dir for my VB images. Does anybody know, how to change that?
Thanks,
Bacopilot
You can't. The plugins don't use the OS drive by design. You could repartition the OS to make another partition to put the VMs on.
Thanks for the reply. Can you tell me, how to repartition the OS, without losing all settings like RAID etc.? Is this possible?
boot the system using gparted live. Shrink the OS partition and create a new partition.
Perfect. I will do that and give feedback.
What do you think, how much space (out of 220GB HDD) you would assign to OMV, also taking further plugin installation into account?
Currently, OMV incl. VB plugin need 1,7 GB, which is not that much.
I would appreciate a recommendation from you, if you don't mind.
Thanks in advance.
Bacopilot
At least 20 GB. However, why do you want them on the system drive?
I want to have them on the system drive, as I don't want to mix it up, with the RAID storage.
Does it make sense?
My current OMV system partition only uses 4GB with quite a few plugins. I'd say that reserving 10G for the system should be more than enough.
Thanks for your response Nibb31. My only question now is, does it makes sense to save the VB images on OMV system drive rather than on my RAID data storage.
I´d say absolutely no.
You can simply create a dedicated folder for your VM´s. You do not need to make it public or share it with samba for example. It is just on your filesystem. And if your system drive dies, you can just reinstall OMV and the plugins and then use your VMs again. I use my 265GB SSD just for the system and I store everything on the Raid.
Thanks WastlJ for the good and helpful answer. Need to think about it. Keep you posted.
Maybe, somebody another thought?
I agree with WastlJ. We generally recommend not using the OS drive for any data including VMs.
My plan was to set up a 120GB SSD with a 10GB partition dedicated to the system and the rest as a partition for VMs. I think that it in this case, the VMs would get a speed increase from being on the SSD. Any thoughts ?
That should work and VMs would be faster.
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