How to deploy a new Cloud Image virtual machine VM image to a KVM server using libvirt
New KVM Setup Guide This is a guide on how to set up a new KVM image on a Ubuntu KVM installation. The other way
Virtualization
How to export a Proxmox VM to a KVM installation
Quick commands: qm list qm config 109 pvs vgs lvdisplay | grep 109 lvdisplay /dev/raid1/vm-109-disk-0 df -h pwd qemu-img convert -O qcow2 /dev/raid1/vm-109-disk-0 host.x.y.z.qcow scp
How to know you’ve overprovisioned Proxmox LVM thin disks – io-error with yellow triangle
Background One of your VMs might just stop working. When you look at the icon in the Proxmox explorer you see a yellow triangle and
How to identify Out of Memory (OOM) Problems with a Proxmox Host
If Proxmox runs out of RAM on the host, some VMs might suddenly just be switched off. This article has a few tips to see
Proxmox Cheat Sheet / Primer
This is the start of the Proxmox Cheat Sheet. We already have a few articles on Proxmox, as can be seen here. To start our
How unlock a VM in Proxmox
Background When you can’t shutdown or reboot or even stop a VM in Proxmox it’s quite distressing. Surely it should just reboot when you press
How to activate Proxmox VM guest traffic graphs using LibreNMS
LibreNMS is an incredibly powerful open source Network Management System (NMS) tool made with Laravel. Packed in it’s punch is it’s ability to interrogate Proxmox
How to prepare a Cloud-Init Templates with Proxmox
This is an article about the preparation of Cloud-Init images for a Proxmox server to ease the deployment and setup of Virtual Machines. It covers
Unable to copy / paste in VMware Workstation 16 Player
Background Default install of VMware Workstation 16 Player Default install of Windows 10 Professional Issue #1 Copy/Paste, ie. the kindergarden of computing, doesn’t work. Suggestion
How to convert a qemu file to QCOW2 for export on a Proxmox host
Brief If you have a Proxmox host and you want to export a VM, you have the option of converting to a QCOW2 file. This