Configuring virtual block devices

Configure storage devices, such as DASDs, SCSI disks, or image files, as virtual block devices for a virtual server.

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Configuring a DASD, SCSI, or NVMe disk
You can configure DASDs, SCSI disks, and NVMe devices as virtio block devices in the configuration-XML.
Configuring an image file as storage device
Typically, you provide an image file as storage device when you intend to boot the virtual server from a boot image file.
Configuring a volume as storage device
An alternative to configuring storage pool volumes like image files is to configure them as virtual disks of type volume. Use this variation only if you rely completely on the libvirt storage pool management, and if you do not intend to migrate virtual servers accessing this device to a different host.

Parent topic: Configuring virtio devices