Recent content by johnwbyrd

[Cross-posted from Networking and Installation forum.] Amazon is attempting to lock in their customers into their EC2 offering. I'm going to show you one way how to break that lock-in. Amazon purposely makes it as difficult as possible to migrate virtual machines off of EC2 and onto other...

Updated per your suggestions.

I don't think you understand the point of this post, or who it is supposed to help.

Amazon is attempting to lock in their customers into their EC2 offering. I'm going to show you one way how to break that lock-in. Amazon purposely makes it as difficult as possible to migrate virtual machines off of EC2 and onto other formats. AWS REQUIRES that you invoke their command-line...

Personally, I think your best bet is probably to configure Proxmox to read and write your current vmdk files directly. It's kind of an icky solution, because qcow2 is a superior format, but technically you can add vmdk format disks to your virtual machines in Proxmox. Where are you storing all...

Dear Proxmox, Proxmox is great and I love it. There are plenty of ways to monitor the performance of your Proxmox install. Personally, I have found that iotop is tremendously useful in finding VMs that are hogging the CPU or the I/O subsystems. You may wish to consider making iotop part of...

I'm using the free version, and after some transition pain, it's working well for me as an ESXi replacement. Proxmox, you might consider this beneath your dignity, but you might want to set out a "pay what you can" license, for the currently free version. For those of us who don't currently...