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Whoa, I didn't see that- thanks for piping up oeginc. I'll start testing qdev -device this week.

Yeah, I didn't know about that limitation, I only use KVMs, sorry. On that all I can suggest is to avoid the use of symlinks in the /var/lib/vz directory- that caused me headaches some time ago with host backups.

Hi, Mine's similar w/ PVE on sda SSD & data on sdb PERC 6/i RAID10 2x2x2 made of 6 2TB Seagate/Hitachi SATA II @ 7200 rpm. I wouldn't bother to move or replace that directory per se. I found it just as easy to add additional LVM storages for the virtual disks, and leave the local storage on...

I tend toward keeping Proxmox as uncluttered as possible so it can focus the energy. I think it makes for easier management of such services to keep them isolated, especially in a multi-user environment.

This doesn't look right to me: Assuming that /dev/md0 has a UUID of a448179a-89f1-4e4c-b754-cbc9b44368dc, then this entry is incorrect (view the UUID of /dev entries with the command blkid to verify). I've never seen both methods of defining the device on the same line at the same time...

What comes to mind are the mistakes I made when I was early in this, ie. Once I used symlinks & later found I had caused some unnecessary complication. You seem to have found a better way already. Have fun.

I have a similar configuration and this is how it's working. There's a small drive on sda and Proxmox is installed to that. Also is a > 3TB drive in the host on sdb. The partition size of sdb1 is 2TB. The partition size of sdb2 is < 1.5TB. I don't know why, the Proxmox installer would...

Ok, I see. I didn't know of that limitation with LVM storage. Seems a directory storage would be necessary instead. The raw files are sparse, so they do have expansion characteristics: I see the size & speed of my backups correlate to the amount of actual data usage on the disk, rather than...

From what I understand, the devs do intend to eventually implement support for the newer qdev -device syntax. This would change our current configuration that looks like this: -net nic,vlan=VLAN,macaddr=MACADDR,model=MODEL,name=ID,addr=STR,vectors=VTo this: -netdev type=TYPE,id=NET-ID -device...

From the linux-kvm mailing list:

The qm monitor screen doesn't have a scrollbar & it doesn't page by appending |less to a command. I don't know how to see all it's output. It looks like there are more commands detailed within the output of that terminal's 'help' command than are detailed in the manpage or at the bash prompt...

I can't use compression on a couple real large ones either because of the time it takes too. Since you have a 3rd party app moving the tar offsite, maybe it can be set to compress what it's moving? As for bwlimit tweaking it's essentially an ignored value since PVE 1.6. Instead it uses --ionice...

I'm not sure about the idiosyncrasies of the qcow format or why you wouldn't be able to use that on your local storage. LVM storage is the higher throughput method as opposed to a directory storage. I think you can simply dd to & from LVM, but I haven't had to yet so I'm not sure. Here are a...

We all should organize the wiki to lessen this reliance on asking questions in the forum. No offense intended since I'm just as inactive as most, I often wish there was time to address some of that. It's on the to-do list, so to speak.

I've yet to implement a complete solution as of yet, however I've collected a few ideas so far along with various components which wait for me to find time to install & configure properly. One of which is a mechanism with which to automate offline backups similarly to how tape drives have...

Integrity checking is a constant concern in the back of my mind. Twice since using PVE (2-3 years?), I've encountered unusable/corrupted .tar backups and I worry about good ones being overwritten. I found this thread while querying 'maxfiles', currently looking for an easy way to assign...

disable acpi?

Not with qmrestore, but these threads contain commands that can be adapted to do that. http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/4528-where-are-the-vm-files http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/2609-Need-help-on-moving-disk-image-from-one-KVM-machine-to-another

I would try zeroing the offending disk, or formatting to something else other than the filesystem you intend to use, then back to whatever you want it to be, just to be absolutely sure there isn't residue getting in the way. I find it's often quicker to destroy & recreate a new array in a...

I learned today that the journal of an ext3 partition can be placed on a separate 400MB LV that could reside on a SSD. Has anyone here experienced success with this kind of config? I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts for or against it. Here's why. I happened across this as a possible...