Attaching a drive without formatting XCPng

Computer Hardware & Server Infrastructure Builds
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Hello Everyone!

I was recently gifted a used Dell Poweredge R510 and was able to get XCPng installed. I am unable to figure out how to mount/attach 2 drives that contained the actual media (movies, music, etc.). Is there anyway to mount/attach the drives into my new Ubuntu VM without formatting them? They already had an ext4 system from my previous server build (a small mini pc also running ubuntu).

I have all my drives attached to my HBA (In iT mode) and they are all recognized but I cannot create SR on them unless I format them and I’d rather not re-download all my media 8(

Apologies if it’s a dumb/noob question this is my first type-1 Hype. Is it possible to just pass them through to the VM without going through XCPng/Xen or is that inadvisable?

Thanks for any help you can provide!

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You’ll have to pass the drive to the VM through xcpng. Tom has some videos on it.

Older but shows the hard drive pass though.

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Thanks mate, that was exactly what I needed!