OMV VM Config on PiMOX

Hi All ,

I Installed PiMox ( Proxmox VE for Raspberry Pi) on my RPi4 and it working fine .. I managed to install OMV as a LXC but its difficult to attach external disks to it

i Need help installing OMV as a VM instead of LXC ,, i tried many VM config variations but it wont boot from the OMV iso nor the debin iso

anyone successful doing that ?

Quote from Soma

OMV doesn't run proper on lxc.

Why complicated?

complicated because the disks I have are in a DAS device connected to the Pi over USB ,, and its giving me all kinds of trouble mapping the disks once by one inside the LXC , but anyways i don’t find the LXC idea worth the effort ,,, i will proceed with ryecoaaron suggestion ,,,

thank you both for your usual support

Followup ...

I am happy to let you know that I managed to get the OMV running in a VM in PiMox also attached 5 external disks , 4TB each , configured mergerfs and everything is working fine ...

• i installed Debian image debian-12-nocloud-arm64.qcow2 on the machine configured below

• i installed OMV from this guide (remember to install wget and openssh-server) before you start with the guide

Installation on Debian — openmediavault 6.x.y documentation

• I installed OMV-extras

wget -O - https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/packages/raw/master/install | sudo bash 

• Added mergerfs plugin and customised OMV and enabled services like cifs etc etc
• I added disk to the VM

ls -l /dev/disk/by-id 

• then one by one add the disks using this IDs with the command

  qm set <VM_ID>
 -virtio1 /dev/disk/by-id/<disk-ID>

• Created a giant mergerfs pool
• Created a shared folder on the root of the mergerfs pool ç I could not write to this folder from windows machine but I created folders inside the main folder and reading and writing was fine
• I copy from windows machine large files like 3GB to the cifs share and it starts at speed of 40-45 MBps

• Note : the NIC on this setup is a USB 2.5Gbps NIC connected to the Pi 4 through a USB hub and on the same hub I connect USB cable to the enclosure hosting 5 disks each are 4TB

Here is the final VM

and here is OMV7

thank you dear ,, it was just a weekend project , was curious on how much i can push the Pi 4 , i want to install other OS beside OMV now and see what happens

thank you for all the support you extend to the community