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Old 05-22-2015, 12:50 PM   #1
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question about KVM linux and adding the iso file

Hey guys, well everything went fine with KVM. My question is, how can I point the iso from a remote server? when I run KVM, it is only giving me options to find an iso locally.

would a symlink pointing to the file in the remote samba server do the trick?
 
Old 05-22-2015, 03:27 PM   #2
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i added an image to help you guys understand a little better if it was needed. i have an iso on the seperate server, was just wondering if it can be reached?
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Old 05-22-2015, 10:51 PM   #3
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Mount the samba share locally then just browse to it like any other file.
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Old 05-23-2015, 02:32 PM   #4
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I've never tried cifs/samba for this. I've mounted iso images for access like updates and such for systems that didn't have an optical drive. I think it could work.

A somewhat complex way might be to mount it to iscsi.

Less complex might be nfs.

I think this is what you are looking at. http://en.community.dell.com/techcen...mote-iscsi-lun
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