Attaching Disks to VMs

• To attach disk to windows, disk should have the filesystem windows understands (NTFS)
• If the disk is empty:
  • format the disk with the right file system
• If the disk has data in it:
  • find out the file system and attach to the windows/linux machine
• Windows VM:
  • Create a Windows VM
  • Attach an extra disk
    
    
    
    
    
• Linux VM:
  • File Systems: ext4, xfs
  • In linux we mount disks on to directories
    
  • Lets create a new linux vm
  • To view the disks attached to linux lsblk
  • To view the mounts the command is df -h
    
  • Lets attach a new disk of size 4 GB
    
  • lets format the disk and create xfs file system
    
  • Now create tools folder and mount the new disk on to tools folder
    
• Exercise:
  • After mounting shutdown and start the machines login to check if the disks are still attached.
  • Shutdown the vm, Resize the disk. Start the vm and check if you see new size.
  • Shutdown the vm Resize the disk to previous size, check if it allows or not