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  • 13.3.2. Adding Hard Drives and Other Block Devices to a Guest

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    I've read this:

    Important
    Guest virtual machines should not be given write access to whole disks or block devices (for example, /dev/sdb). Guest virtual machines with access to whole block devices may be able to modify volume labels, which can be used to compromise the host physical machine system. Use partitions (for example, /dev/sdb1) or LVM volumes to prevent this issue.

    and I've read a view posts from:
    KVM Pass through disk Partition - By Label or UUID
    Hard drive passthrough
    Add physical disk to KVM virtual machine

    and did this,

    
      
      
      
      
      
      

    and added a secondary drive:

    
      
      
      
      
      

    However I get this error when trying to start:

    Error starting domain: Cannot access storage file '/dev/disk/by-uuid/92E8-A359': No such file or directory
    
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 75, in cb_wrapper
        callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
      File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 111, in tmpcb
        callback(*args, **kwargs)
      File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/libvirtobject.py", line 66, in newfn
        ret = fn(self, *args, **kwargs)
      File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/domain.py", line 1279, in startup
        self._backend.create()
      File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1234, in create
        if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
    libvirt.libvirtError: Cannot access storage file '/dev/disk/by-uuid/92E8-A359': No such file or directory
    

    and checking the disk information with Disks, the information is no longer valid. So, how do you set this up correctly?

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