File passthrough with LMDE7 to Win 11 VMM?

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I'm running (host) LMDE7 with (VM) Windows 11, using VMM installed on a bare-metal NVME drive. I have 3 data drives installed on the host machine, formatted in NFTS. How do I enable the data drives to pass through to the VM? I'm not sure if I need to modify my fstab file or something else. Any help will be appreciated.
Code:
System:
  Kernel: 6.12.90+deb13.1-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.0 clocksource: tsc
  Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.7 tk: GTK v: 3.24.49 wm: Muffin v: 6.6.3 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0
    Distro: LMDE 7 Gigi base: Debian 13.0 trixie
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS (WI-FI) v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: SKU uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1202 date: 10/22/2020
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard ERGO K860 serial: <filter>
    charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M510 serial: <filter>
    charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Zen 3+ rev: 0
    cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 32 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3620 min/max: 550/4851 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3620 2: 3620 3: 3620 4: 3620
    5: 3620 6: 3620 7: 3620 8: 3620 9: 3620 10: 3620 11: 3620 12: 3620 13: 3620 14: 3620 15: 3620
    16: 3620 bogomips: 121372
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700 XT/6750 XT / 6800M/6850M
    XT] vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    ports: active: DP-2,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-1,Writeback-1 bus-ID: 0c:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:73df class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x2160 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x572mm (40.00x22.52") s-diag: 1166mm (45.9")
  Monitor-1: DP-2 mapped: DisplayPort-1 pos: top-center model: Acer ED340CUR J0 serial: <filter>
    res: mode: 2560x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 82 size: 797x334mm (31.38x13.15")
    diag: 860mm (33.9") modes: max: 3440x1440 min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-A-0 pos: primary,bottom-l model: Samsung S23B300
    serial: <filter> res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 96
    size: 510x287mm (20.08x11.3") diag: 585mm (23") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  Monitor-3: HDMI-A-2 mapped: HDMI-A-1 pos: bottom-r model: CR270C serial: <filter>
    res: 1920x1080 dpi: 82 size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27") modes: max: 1920x1080
    min: 640x480
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: swrast
    gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.0.7-2 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes
    renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT (radeonsi navi22 LLVM 19.1.7 DRM 3.61 6.12.90+deb13.1-amd64)
    device-ID: 1002:73df
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 layers: 3 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: discrete-gpu hw: amd
    driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:73df device: 1 type: cpu driver: mesa llvmpipe
    device-ID: 10005:0000
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Creative Labs CA0132 Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D / Z-Series BlasterX AE-5 Plus]
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1102:0012
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0c:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0e:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
    class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.90+deb13.1-amd64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp8s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp9s0 state: up speed: 2500 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: br-7df96d4e4672 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-3: veth5603671 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-4: virbr0 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-5: vnet0 state: unknown speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 1-5:5 chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2 lmp-v: 11
    sub-v: 2184 hci-v: 11 rev: 2184 class-ID: 7c0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.09 TiB used: 1.53 TiB (37.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDBRPG0010BNC-WRSN size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 111110WD temp: 48.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WD BLACK SN850 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 611100WD temp: 42.9 C scheme: MBR
  ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDBNCE0010PNC size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 20RL scheme: GPT
  ID-4: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-22MFCA0 size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1A01 scheme: MBR
  ID-5: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WDBNCE5000PNC size: 465.76 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 20RL scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 883.8 GiB used: 802.49 GiB (90.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 mapped: lvmlmde-root
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 285.4 MiB used: 4.4 MiB (1.5%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 31.24 GiB used: 256 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-1
    mapped: lvmlmde-swap
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 10 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-2:2 info: STMicro PCPanel Pro 1.0 type: HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid
    interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 0483:a3c5 class-ID: 0300
    serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 1-3:3 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: keyboard,mouse,HID
    driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 98mA
    chip-ID: 046d:c52b class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: 1-4:4 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: keyboard,mouse,HID
    driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 98mA
    chip-ID: 046d:c52b class-ID: 0300
  Device-4: 1-5:5 info: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2
    rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001
  Device-5: 1-6:6 info: ASUSTek AURA LED Controller type: HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid
    interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 16mA chip-ID: 0b05:1939 class-ID: 0300
    serial: <filter>
  Hub-2: 1-7:7 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 1-7.2:8 info: Terminus Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 1a40:0101 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-7.2.4:9 info: Prolific LG GE24LU21 type: mass storage driver: usb-storage
    interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 067b:2571 class-ID: 0806
    serial: <filter>
  Hub-4: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-6: 3-1:2 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-7: 3-1.2:3 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-8: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: 37.5 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 44.0 C mem: 40.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Repos:
  Packages: 3189 pm: dpkg pkgs: 3137 pm: flatpak pkgs: 52
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com gigi main upstream import backport
    2: deb https: //deb.debian.org/debian trixie main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    3: deb https: //deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    4: deb http: //security.debian.org trixie-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    5: deb https: //deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.sources
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https: //download.docker.com/linux/debian gigi stable
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.24 GiB used: 27.18 GiB (87.0%)
  Processes: 463 Power: uptime: 1h 8m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep wakeups: 0
    hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical
  Compilers: gcc: 14.2.0 Client: Unknown python3.13 client inxi: 3.3.38

fstab file
Code:
#### Static Filesystem Table File
proc    /proc    proc    defaults    0    0
# /dev/mapper/lvmlmde-root
UUID=255b9d2c-1eb5-4bcf-84fe-995a191a2104 /  ext4 defaults 0 1
# /dev/mapper/lvmlmde-swap
UUID=2dc3e1cd-ea01-4260-a00c-2afa90ddccfd none   swap sw 0 0
# /dev/nvme0n1p1
UUID=8E99-1AD8 /boot/efi  vfat defaults 0 1
/dev/disk/by-uuid/C225-0100 /mnt/C225-0100 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/0EE57DFF439424FF /mnt/0EE57DFF439424FF auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/2F9D3FC97FEA91CE /mnt/2F9D3FC97FEA91CE auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/1AE58F5D36F1CE4B /mnt/1AE58F5D36F1CE4B auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-hp_DVD-RAM_GH80N_PROLIFICMP000000751-0:0 /mnt/usb-hp_DVD-RAM_GH80N_PROLIFICMP000000751-0:0 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/c666b7c1-cf77-4e52-aecb-8a63ccf3eb53 /mnt/c666b7c1-cf77-4e52-aecb-8a63ccf3eb53 ext4 nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

Thanks
 


Also, if you mean Virtual Machine Manager, I'm not very familiar with it. It looks like this is the path to do so:

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I probably should have drawn an arrow at the ''Filesystem" option. The IDE Disk 1 can be ignored, as it's just where I happened to have highlighted before trying this route.

You can add as many source paths as you want.

That looks like it should work, but I'm really a VirtualBox user.
 


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