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I have a Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) server and want to create a Windows 10 virtual machine instance with kvm as hypervisor and virtual manager as ui. Furthermore, I want to pass through 2 hard drives to the VM and my question is how I can pass through hard drives in kvm and whether I can set up storage spaces within Windows 10, using the passed through hard drives?

I do not need to access content on the 2 hard drives from within Linux but like to manage the storage space from within the Windows 10 VM and share folders across my lan network on which other windows machines connect to.

If this is possible which virtualization environment do you recommend me to install on the linux server to host the Windows 10 instance and pass through the hard drives?

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  • Why do you want to create Windows 10 VM not a Linux VM?
    – Biswapriyo
    Commented Dec 24, 2017 at 12:56
  • As a general rule, I never mange block devices in a vm if I care about throughout or stability. I let the host mange the block devices, make virtual disks and attach to the vm for direct use. With that said you should be able to do it. Just create virtual disks, attach then to your vm, then do what you want with storage spaces.
    – Damon
    Commented Dec 24, 2017 at 15:52
  • @Biswa, because I use Linux for AI compute purposes which require direct access to my gpus. Gpu pass-through is still very unstable and immature.
    – Matt
    Commented Dec 25, 2017 at 3:38
  • @Damon, I am confused by your comment. Managing physical device hardware is my definition always more stable than software/simulated/virtual solutions. And how does creating virtual disks help my problem? The issues I see with this is : problems with spinning down drives in Linux (HD parm and HD-idle have massive problems with wd drives), but more importantly a very ugly solution of storage spaces on top of virtual disks, something that is impossible to use should any of the OSs crash. I want a clean storage space, accessing the hard drives directly cause then I can swap the drives out and
    – Matt
    Commented Dec 25, 2017 at 3:42
  • ... Directly use in another windows machine.
    – Matt
    Commented Dec 25, 2017 at 3:42

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