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    Very strange file behavior with a qcow2 file

    I tried to use raw files. If I create them manually I seem to be ok, but minute I try to do anything within PVM such as add disk space it starts treating it as a sparse file again. This is so annoying. I hate the idea of having unpredictable disk space reporting and hindering the ability at...
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    How do you attach a disk to a VM?

    Figured it out, looks like you have to edit /etc/pve/qemu-server/xxx.conf where xxx is vm number. Would be nice if there was a way through the gui to do it though.
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    How do you attach a disk to a VM?

    Seems this should be something simple to do but can't seem to find the option anywhere. I want to create my disks manually so I can preallocate them as there does not seem to be an option to do that while creating the VM, but I also see no option to add the disks. Is there a way to do this?
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    Very strange file behavior with a qcow2 file

    Where would I go for that? I can't seem to find it. I don't really see anything called settings anywhere. I'm on 6.4-13 so I wonder if maybe that's not recent enough? (it's what OVH installs by default, there is no way to install anything not in the list)
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    Very strange file behavior with a qcow2 file

    Is there a way to change that default so it just preallocates or at least does not create sparse files? That would probably be my best bet. I just don't like the weirdness of sparse files and how they are basically impossible to copy anywhere using normal means.
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    Very strange file behavior with a qcow2 file

    Yeah recently read on sparse files, never heard of them before this incident. Not quite sure I understand it yet, or how it happens. Ex: how did the file end up that way? Is there a way to make it like vmware? The vmdks are regular files. The hypervisor will just grow it as needed and...
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    Very strange file behavior with a qcow2 file

    I recently learned about "sparse" files in this troubleshooting, but still baffled at the concept. I know about thin provisioning but never seen it done this way, I figured the file would just grow in size and that the hypervisor itself handled that, but in this case it's almost like it's...
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    Very strange file behavior with a qcow2 file

    So a little background, I have a Proxmox VE 6.4-13 server at OVH. I chose default partitioning when I set it up, only to realize the hard way that they only allocated 20GB to the / partition. I made a /localdata/vms/ folder to set as my VM store and quickly ran out of space while building my...
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    ISOs: Is there a better way?

    I just discovered the hard way that the ISOs have to be in a rather specific folder (template/iso of a datastore) and it does not handle subdirectories. I have 250GB worth of ISOs all neatly organized by OS, version, etc... Is there a way I can browse through that when installing an OS? I...
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    NFS permissions

    Hi, When setting up an NFS storage LUN, how do I tell it to mount it as a specific user, and access it as a specific user? Ex: My VM storage NFS share is owned by vmuser:vmuser, I may want to create several users in Proxmox such as if I want to give a friend access, but I want to make sure...