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    VMs do not reboot

    hello, i have noticed a strange behaviour with my PVE installation. here is the version my this PVE: # pveversion -v pve-manager: 1.6-5 (pve-manager/1.6/5261) running kernel: 2.6.32-4-pve proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.6-25 pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve: 2.6.32-25 qemu-server: 1.1-22 pve-firmware: 1.0-9...
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    how to start VMs from the command shell

    dietmar what i was trying to say is: how do i start a virtual machine from ssh from PVE host? then i can use this command inside my loop. sorry for badly explaining myself. thanks
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    Guest Ubuntu 10.04 - does not understand 'shutdown' signal

    sorry i was trying to say that i makes sense for ubuntu not to install acpi packages; as no packages on the server install required it - but on desktop it is necessary. apologies for the confusion. after instaling this package everything is working fine. thanks,
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    how to start VMs from the command shell

    hi i have a set of machines that work as a cluster and i would like to run a command like this: for i in $( seq 30 39 ) ; do echo "someCommand for VM 10$i" ; done; someCommand for VM 1030 someCommand for VM 1031 someCommand for VM 1032 someCommand for VM 1033 someCommand for VM 1034...
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    Boot into Virtual machine

    you seem to be considering your physical pcs the same way as your virtual ones. you might find something of interest by having a look at openqrm project. Nicolas
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    Guest Ubuntu 10.04 - does not understand 'shutdown' signal

    yep many thanks for that as a virtual machine the installer fails to find any requirement for acpi. with regards, Nicolas www.brainpowered.net
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    Guest Ubuntu 10.04 - does not understand 'shutdown' signal

    Hi folks, i would like to check if i am using PVE correctly here of it this is a bug that someone else has come across. i have created a set of Guests based on Ubuntu 10.04 x64 Server, and i noticed that clicking on 'SHUTDOWN' button on PVE interface for a given machine is not interepreted by...
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    cluster network IP management

    thanks Udo, i decided to use network: 20-bit block 172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255 1,048,576 16 contiguous class Bs 172.16.0.0/12 (255.240.0.0) 20 bits based on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network#Private_IPv4_address_spaces and set IPs for the proxmox nodes in this network as well...
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    cluster network IP management

    many thanks Udo, so i do require two NICs on each host: - vmbr0 - connecting each node to each other and supporting proxmox via network 192.168.1.xxx - vmbr1 - connection between VMs, node does not require IP on this NIC; VMs will have IP in range 10.0.0.0/8 i beleive i understand the topology...
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    Install Proxmox on Ubuntu KVM/QEMU environment

    i move some VM from ubuntu KVM BUT i had to create a new VM in proxmox and before start this VM i overwrite the vm-disk with the file created in ubuntu. Nicolas
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    cluster network IP management

    hi, i understand that each pve nodes has an external IP having a range of say: 192.168.1.nnn where 1<= nnn <= 254 thus in a cluster envrionmnet each node would be like: 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2 .. 192.168.1.254 and that each node also has an internal private IP range, normally: 10.0.0.0/8 is...
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    Network configuration

    Re: Network configuration (nat + forward) dany you will need to setup two NICs on your VM i will asumme the following scenario eth0 is bridged with vmbr0 (external IP) eth1 is bridged with vmbr1 (internal IP) when you create your VM you go: virtual machines > create fill all the details...
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    VM_Groups_with_Network_Backing - howto?

    thanks a lot we did find this setup rather unfamiliar. thus we are going to use NFS instead; until i have spend more time familiarising myself with this. with regards, Nicolas
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    VM_Groups_with_Network_Backing - howto?

    thanks dietmar, i had installed the package but still not sure how to set it up i tried amending the configuration file as below but when trying to setup the storage i get error: Error: command '/usr/bin/iscsiadm --mode discovery --type sendtargets --portal 192.168.1.251' failed with exit...
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    VM_Groups_with_Network_Backing - howto?

    hi, i am reading the documentation to see the appropriated way of setting up proxmox. i find the storage page quite clear except for how to setup the necessary supporting packages for: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage_Model#LVM_Groups_with_Network_Backing when i tried creating a ISCSI...
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    problems setting up NFS4 to keep shares

    that actually was one of the best answers to this question so far. i tried mounting the shares but failed with some strange results. i tried mount shareA when in fact i mounted shareB.. no idea how. many thanks i will use LVM as storage instead. Nicolas
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    problems setting up NFS4 to keep shares

    Hi folks, i have problem in setting up a NFS4 server to share some locations. i followed this document - section around non-secure connections: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpNFSHowTo and my /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server now looks like this. # Number of servers to start up...
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    How to Mount a REAL disk/lvm as a virtual machine disk

    Dietmar, you were correct, and i have reformatted the file system and i can now mount it on the guest without a glitch. kind regards, Nicolas www.brainpowered.net
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    How to Mount a REAL disk/lvm as a virtual machine disk

    thanks Dietmar, but i think i have latest one already and it is not working either; it is a ubuntu LTS 8.04 (hardy) Linux mybox.lan 2.6.24-27-server #1 SMP Fri Mar 12 01:23:09 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux so from your comment i would guess that i need to have yet a newer version for it work. is...