I'm not looking to attach a new disk or a block deivice, this is a folder that is being mounted and used by the bare metal system that I'd like to pass into the VM.  I'm thinking Samba may be the way to go, although there is a fair amount of overhead doing that.  
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On 2009-11-11, at 3:26 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote:

> I'm attempting to ad a folder located on the bare-metal machine to the VM and have it
> appear as a drive (such as HDD), is this possible?  I've looked over the documentation and it suggests this is only possible for USB
 
The RHEL Virtualization Guide says you can do it by creating a sparse file:
 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualization_Guide/sect-Virtualization-Virtualized_block_devices-Adding_storage_devices_to_guests.html
 
    Neil

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