[Users] Error on prlctl set 100 --device-add --image PATH

[Alexey Zilber]

Just to clarify, you probably want to do this (if you want to go the easy
route):

# prlctl set 100 --device-add hdd --image /backup/100 --size 100G --mnt
/backup --recreate


On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 5:14 PM, Alexey Zilber <alexeyzilber at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From the man page:
>
> image_name: the image file to be used to emulate the VE virtual hard
> disk.  To use an existing image file, specify its name and path.  To
> create  a  new  image  file, omit the --image option (a new file named
> harddiskN.hdd will be created in the VE directory) or use --recreate option.
>
> You have two options here.  Either create a new disk image externally,
> before running that command (using dd, fdisk/parted, mkfs, etc.).  Or, you
> can try the --recreate option.
>
> Let us know how that goes. :)
>
> -Alex
>
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 4:40 PM, José Manuel Giner <jmginer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> ls -al /backup/100
>> ls: cannot access /backup/100: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> El lun., 4 jun. 2018 a las 10:18, Alexey Zilber (<alexeyzilber at gmail.com>)
>> escribió:
>>
>>> ls -al /backup/100
>>>
>>> Output?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 3:27 PM, José Manuel Giner <jmginer at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to add an additional disk to a container.
>>>>
>>>> The new disk image must be hosted on a different partition of the node.
>>>>
>>>> If we exclude the "--image PATH" parameter, the result is correct. But
>>>> we want to be able to define a different partition for the additional disk.
>>>>
>>>> According to the documentation, this should be possible.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The error:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # prlctl set 100 --device-add hdd --image /backup/100 --size 100G --mnt
>>>> /backup
>>>> Creating hdd1 (+) scsi:1 image='/backup/100' mnt=/backup
>>>> subtype=virtio-scsi
>>>>
>>>> CT configuration validation result(s) :
>>>> * The image file "/backup/100" used by hard disk 2 does not exist.Hard
>>>> disk 2 will not be connected at the virtual machine startup.
>>>> Failed to configure the virtual machine.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # df -h
>>>> Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>> /dev/mapper/openvz-root    9.8G  2.2G  7.1G  24% /
>>>> devtmpfs                    12G     0   12G   0% /dev
>>>> tmpfs                       12G     0   12G   0% /dev/shm
>>>> tmpfs                       12G  780K   12G   1% /run
>>>> tmpfs                       12G     0   12G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>>>> /dev/sda2                  976M  146M  764M  17% /boot
>>>> /dev/mapper/backup-backup  148G   61M  140G   1% /backup
>>>> /dev/mapper/openvz-vz      138G  1.7G  130G   2% /vz
>>>> tmpfs                      2.4G     0  2.4G   0% /run/user/0
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> José Manuel Giner
>>>>
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