Passthrough physical disk to Virtual Machine – Proxmox tutorial series

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Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: basic understanding of virtualization using Proxmox
Prerequisites: basic understanding of linux command line.

In this video, we will be adding an external physical device to a Proxmox server, then pass it through to a Virtual Machine. I will explore the speed differences in using different drivers to connect the external hard drive.

Video timeline
00:00 intro
00:25 Proxmox, VM, and external hard drive specs
01:20 Connecting the USB external hard drive to VM
03:15 Speed test for USB driver
04:25 Removing USB external hard drive from VM
05:31 Faster performance drivers
07:28 Connecting hard drive using virtio2 driver
09:53 Speed test for virtio2 driver

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