[SOLVED]Create a VM storage partition

[Gebonimo]

Hi people,

I'm trying to set up a W7 VM on my Linux 18.3. This computer is actually on dual boot.

I want to use a dedicate partition to do this, so I've created the VM partition (mounted as /dev/sda3).

My disk arch is like this

• /dev/sda1 : Windows System Partition (100 Mo)

• /dev/sda2 : C: of Windows (~250 Go)

• /dev/sda3 : VM for Linux part (old D: of Windows, ~350 Go)

• /dev/sda4 : Linux Mint 18.3 (~450 Go)

I created a security group named "vm" and added the kvm's user. I allowed this group to edit and create files in /dev/sda3 since the vmdk of my VM is stored in here.

But when I try to set up the VM, it keeps telling me that KVM has no access to this file. I presume it's because it has to go throught "/media/me" before.

How can i set up this ? Editing fstab ? Upgrading my /dev/sda4 size so I don't have the access trouble anymore ?

Thanks for help.

[deepakdeshp]

You have to mount sda3 on some mount point then the device will be accessed by the name of the mount point.

[Gebonimo]

Even tho when the partition is mounted I can't access to it. I set up the partition to be automatically mounted when Mint starts up. But kvm still has no permission to read or write on it.

EDIT: Did you mean create a mount point ?

[deepakdeshp]

You can mount to an existing mount point or create a directory and mount sda3 onto it.

[Gebonimo]

Thank you. it worked.

I do this again to do my backups.

I set it solved.

[deepakdeshp]

You are welcome