Using live drives in virtual box

[Uwillparish]

To make a long story short, im trying to use windows server and keep openmediavault in a VM, however, i need my drives because i dont have enough space to virtualise them, is there any way to use a format windows doesn't recognize as a live drive in virtual box?

[manikyath]

so.. from what i understand...

 

you have a system with a virtual machine, and that VM has to access several hard drives in your machine.

 

the way i did this (and i feel terrible for doing it...) is just have a virtual hard drive on each of the drives. and hook those into the VM.

virtualbox should have a way to select where a specific virtual hard drive is stored.

[Uwillparish]

so.. from what i understand...

 

you have a system with a virtual machine, and that VM has to access several hard drives in your machine.

 

the way i did this (and i feel terrible for doing it...) is just have a virtual hard drive on each of the drives. and hook those into the VM.

virtualbox should have a way to select where a specific virtual hard drive is stored.

Let me try and re-phrase, I have a windows server 2012 r2 machine, which ran OMV-a debian Network storage disrto, and im trying to move that distro into a vm, i have gotten the config drive moved, but i dont have enough space to virtualise the 3 other drives, which are formatted for linux, a format windows cant read, im wondering if i can still use them in virtual box as a live drive

[manikyath]

Let me try and re-phrase, I have a windows server 2012 r2 machine, which ran OMV-a debian Network storage disrto, and im trying to move that distro into a vm, i have gotten the config drive moved, but i dont have enough space to virtualise the 3 other drives, which are formatted for linux, a format windows cant read, im wondering if i can still use them in virtual box as a live drive

http://www.serverwatch.com/server-tutorials/using-a-physical-hard-drive-with-a-virtualbox-vm.html

 

this should cut it.