Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

[tom]

yes, good idea. If you have a running windows KVM guest with a too small disk just poweroff and add a new disk (with the new bigger size). then boot a live CD (I know acronis) and copy with resize to the new disk. can you try this?

just did it successfully with clonezilla (winxp).

 

[Petrus4]

just did it successfully with clonezilla (winxp).

Hi Tom,

I have been trying this with clonezilla..but I keep getting a "disk read error" when booting up the new drive.

could you help me out with the settings?

1 Clone type
device-device
2 Image type
disk_to_local_disk
3 Choose Local Disk As Source
Select the source device.
4 Choose Local Disk As Target
Same thing for the target device.

I Keep default settings except for in advanced settings change to "-K1"

What am I missing?

 

[Petrus4]

ok I was able to boot after cloning my small drive to the bigger drive after booting from the winxp install cd and entering recovery mode and doing a

fixmbr
and 
fixboot

I have used this Clonezilla Live CD reference card which helped me.

Tom -- did you have to do this also and if not what settings did you use?

 

[tom]

ok I was able to boot after cloning my small drive to the bigger drive after booting from the winxp install cd and entering recovery mode and doing a

fixmbr
and 
fixboot

I have used this Clonezilla Live CD reference card which helped me.

Tom -- did you have to do this also and if not what settings did you use?

I just used the wizard and answered the questions to my best knowledge.

 

[Petrus4]

I just used the wizard and answered the questions to my best knowledge.

yep did so also , but I am wondering if I missed something since I got the boot error and had to correct this.

What did you do different from the default settings? (I am using the most recent version of Clonezilla clonezilla-live-1.2.1-39.iso)

 

[tom]

yep did so also , but I am wondering if I missed something since I got the boot error and had to correct this.

What did you do different from the default settings? (I am using the most recent version of Clonezilla clonezilla-live-1.2.1-39.iso)

can´t remember, I just booted the ISO and went through the wizard.

 

[macuto]

hello,

i have a server whit have Centos install, and i no have option for install your ISO, you have some form how i install promox in the Centos i have in the server now?

please let me know. because allot DC no offer External Installation of linux

 

[dietmar]

Proxmox is debian based - so you cant install it on redhat/centos.

 

[somecallmemike]

I was just wondering how you facilitate the clustering portion of Proxmox? Just curious.

Michael

 

[maurizio.omissoni]

Yes with clonezilla I could copy a little partition in a bigger one, using -r and after -k1 to use all the new space of the bigger partition.
Then in options I said to boot from ide0:1 instead of ide0:0.
unfortunately XP does not start . The qemu-Bios says that it cannot read the harddisk. Are there some clonezilla-flags I ignored?

 

[dcrampton]

they do also not support KVM, so sadly they are not suited for our project. maybe you should go for a stable 2.6.18 openvz based system and you need to adapt whatever you need for the gui.

I do not know you cost calculation but sooner or later it will come a point where buying new servers is cheaper than operating with stuff.

We are in a similar situation, though we only have three Proliant G3 units that we'd like to use, even for a few units. While a stable OpenVZ install would work, it does not offer the clustering and shared management options that Proxmox does.

 

[Petrus4]

Yes with clonezilla I could copy a little partition in a bigger one, using -r and after -k1 to use all the new space of the bigger partition.
Then in options I said to boot from ide0:1 instead of ide0:0.
unfortunately XP does not start . The qemu-Bios says that it cannot read the harddisk. Are there some clonezilla-flags I ignored?

see http://www.proxmox.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6355&postcount=24

 

[maurizio.omissoni]

I do not know what exactly is PXE but i created an ubuntu ltsp server in a kvm-vm and with another kvm-vm i tested the network boot. it worked fine.

 

[Erwin123]

Is there a maillinglist available through wich we can receive notices about updates etc?

 

[tom]

Is there a maillinglist available through wich we can receive notices about updates etc?

yes, see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Get_support

 

[fcomman]

Hi,

I would like more detail information about ProxMox VE 1.3 cluster mode.
Especially, I did not get if this mean that if a ProxMox server of the node die, does it mean that all VMs that was on this server are still available ??
Or do they die also ?

Thanks for any answer.

 

[dietmar]

I would like more detail information about ProxMox VE 1.3 cluster mode.
Especially, I did not get if this mean that if a ProxMox server of the node die, does it mean that all VMs that was on this server are still available ??
Or do they die also ?

HA with corosync/pacemaker is on the roadmap.

 

[ILeA]

Hello, how i can install 64 bit guest system ?

In the FAQ (Fully virtualized Machines (KVM)) written by Guest Type: select what you need (32 and 64 bit guests are possible)

but I do not see any of the 64 bit system for selecting

If I choose Guest type to windows 2008 (for example)
I have the error ... your processor is not compatible with 64-bit when try install the system.

CPU(s) 4 x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
Version (package/version/build) pve-manager/1.3/4023
Kernel Version Linux 2.6.24-7-pve #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 2 08:00:29 CEST 2009

 

[dietmar]

Please can you update to the latest version.

 

[pille]

Re: Only 64 bit host cpu?

I wonder if Proxmox actually could work in a 32 bit host CPU, or if eventually it will?

Is it capable to have 32 bit guest OS?

There's an unofficial repository. check the wiki: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Lenny_on_32-Bit_Processor