Recent content by unleeshop

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    Renaming host, nodes ?

    Thanks, good to know I'm on right track. What was throwing me was that I would try to COPY the vmid.conf file to the new node, but the command would not work. No error message, just wouldn't "go". But when I did a "move" it moved happily enough. Don't care why, it's all working now. Thanks...
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    Renaming host, nodes ?

    Minor problem: I may have mismanaged renaming a new PV server. To upgrade an existing PV host to PV 5.2 I had our network folks assign a new physical computer a temporary name in our campus DNS, then ran a clean PVE 5 install on it. I copied over my VM snapshot files, unpacked and ran one...
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    Extending file system after v.3 to v. 4.4 upgrade?

    OK, I *was* off on the wrong track. It had everything to do with the thin LVM model, not that I understand why having a thin lvm meant that this data area was basically invisible to me. In any case, by following this procedure exactly, I got my original storage space back the way I need it...
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    Extending file system after v.3 to v. 4.4 upgrade?

    I may be on the wrong track. The web GUI on the server I just upgraded to 4.4 shows, under "storage", that the drive I'm seeing from the command line is a 95Gb "local" drive, but the GUI also shows me an active, enabled, "local-lvm" drive of 812 Gb of type "LVM-Thin" - that's the storage that I...
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    Extending file system after v.3 to v. 4.4 upgrade?

    Briefly: needing to upgrade our two ProxMox 3.4 hosts to a newer release, I followed the recommendation to back up VMs and save the /etc directory someplace, then pop the install disk in to do a clean install of 4.4. I did this on our backup host and after a couple hiccups and tweaks it is now...
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    dist-upgrade from 3.4 to 4.4 work?

    VERY nice documentation. Excellent! I have the added advantage that besides our main VM host, I am running a backup VM host and can test upgrades on that box first without threatening our production VMs. Thanks!
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    dist-upgrade from 3.4 to 4.4 work?

    Well, I did it again . . . I didn't pay attention to the major distribution upgrades, and I've got a pair of hosts still on Proxmox 3.4. My recollection from the last time I was similarly neglectful, was I was able to upgrade from 1.9 to 3.2 in one go and just reload my VMs, I'm *assuming* I...
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    Did "resize" to shrink VM disk actually work? How to tell?

    Thanks for input - I did reboot the Linux OS and also stop/start the KVM, but the Proxmox GUI setting still said the larger number. But because I didn't every succeed in actually expanding Linux into the additional space before shrinking it back down, as far as Linux is concerned nothing has...
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    Windows Update Breaks VM

    Windows update issues caused us to eventually give up on using a ProxMox-based KVM for the department's Win 2008 server and return to dedicated hardware. I just could not be sure that I'd get my server "back" after running a Windows update.
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    Did "resize" to shrink VM disk actually work? How to tell?

    I'll try to be brief - after lots of forum reading I realized that though I was able to use the Proxmox web management client to increase the size of the drive on a Linux KVM, I probably wasn't going to have a quick way to let my Linux OS expand the partition to include the space. It'd be...
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    Confirming safest/least-hassle VM migration path from 1.9 to 3.1

    From checking the forums it appears that yes, I should be able to migrate KVM virtual machines I am currently running on a Proxmox 1.9 system to one running version 3.1 and simply reload them. (Thankfully I have a backup physical host so I can install 3.1, migrate the VMs, then upgrade the main...