How do you determine if a Proxmox linked clone is attached to a disk?
Sometimes you want to get rid of a VM template. In doing so, you might encounter the following issue: TASK ERROR: base volume ‘nas02:base-9403-disk-0’ is
Virtualization
Anatomy of a Proxmox server host’s VM storage disk crash
Introduction Every disk crash is different. The point being a disk crash should never happen, so when it does, the results and probability of recovery
Qemu Guest Agent on WHM Servers causes Proxmox Backup Backup server to never unfreeze
Scenario You’re trying to backup a WHM/cPanel server using Proxmox Backup Server. The server is running qemu-guest-agent. The next minute, instead of backing up the
service qemu-guest-agent start timeout in Proxmox environment
TL;DR You don’t have Qemu Guest Agent enabled on the VM. The default is to have it disabled. Longer explanation At times on a new
Dealing with Disk I/O Errors on Proxmox
Proxmox is incredibly stable virtualization software. If you’re having Disk IO issues, it’s typically related to hardware. But how to troubleshoot? In this article we
Python quit unexpectedly using Virtual Machine Manager on Mac
Whilst using Virtual Machine Manager on a Mac to access KVM VMs, you might encounter the following error: Python quit unexpectedly The top of your
How to create a live snapshow of a running KVM virtual machine
KVM Snapshotting and Cloning 101 Snapshotting First the VM must be in qcow2 format. Do this to check: virsh dumpxml nsx.example.com | grep -i qemu
How to convert a raw .img KVM file to a .qcow2 file
Qcow2 is a better format for various reasons, see this link. If you have a KVM host and some of the computers are in img
KVM Cheat Sheet
KVM Cheat Sheet List of VMs virsh list Errors Requested operation is not valid: cannot resize the maximum memory on an active domain To increase
Proxmox Cluster Quick Start
Running a Cluster over a WAN You shouldn’t. Corosync needs 5 to 10 ms latency and is highly sensitive to jitter. We tried running it