[Discuss] Using raw host hard disk in virtual client

[Jerry Natowitz]

I may not have been specific enough in what I want to do.  I want the Linux client to be able to directly mount ext4 partitions, not to do raw I/O to partitions.

Many decades ago (3) I worked on a project that did raw disk I/O.  This was back in the days of washing machine sized drives, with 200 or 300 MB removable disks (RM02/3, RP06).  On day an operator put the wrong disk in, and all our sources were over-written by that day's data.