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First you have to properly add a second disk from within proxmox. Problem is that the CHR VM is a bit picky about which disk controller to use. You can either use an ide disk, or use LVM. If you do use LVM, in options select to use the VMware PVSCSI as the SCSI controller. IIRC, I could not use...

Strike that out, I did not have to use a UEFI BIOS at all. Everything worked with the default SeaBIOS. :)

I've succesfully transferred Windows Server 2000-2003 systems in the past, that did not utilize UEFI for boot. Cloned them with VMWare vconverter standalone, transfer the vmdk resulting content to my PVE LVM-based storage and presto. Now, I'm facing a similar scenario, in which I've been given...

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Hello, I've got a ready-to-use CentOS 7-based virtual appliance originally made for vmware and wanted to use it on PVE. It was quite easy to do so, just unpack the OVA, get the vmware disk images and dd them to my LVM partition, prepare a PVE guest for CentOS and then connect the LVM-based...

I'll give it a try. However, do you have any idea why the issue with my pvscsi config might occur? Could I do some troubleshooting to help you debug this?

The Linux distro is TheDude which unfortunately refused to boot with its disk boot image set to something other than either IDE or PVSCSI. The bottom line is that I might be able to resolve the problem described in this thread by moving to Virtio scsi for the new disk, but I intended to clone...

Hello, I've a got a Linux VM running as follows: balloon: 0 boot: cdn bootdisk: ide1 cores: 2 ide1: local:106/vm-106-disk-1.qcow2 ide2: local:iso/Hiren's.BootCD.15.2.iso,media=cdrom,size=609268K memory: 128 name: asystem net0: virtio=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX,bridge=vmbr0 numa: 0 ostype: l26 scsi0...

Wealth of info from all of you guys :) I'll have to go study then, thanks a lot.

The PVE systems will be fresh installations, on low-grade/cheap server hardware (ie no RAID 10 and such). Also the VM on each PVE box will be rather small, less than 250Gb per virtual disk (and even less for data). Does pve now ask how it should set up base storage on installation? BCPs for...

@mbaldini thanks I had something along those lines in mind. I've seen references to using perhaps OpenVPN on the windows server VMs, if you believe something else is better please feel free to elaborate.

Thank you for the information provided. @NewDude I presume the solution you're describing is running inside a VM, like Macrium. I'll check into that. Do you recall which methods are available for sending data off-system? Windows SMB/NFS/FTP? @fireon This works on the hypervisor level if I...

I'm considering using proxmox on 2-3 totally different sites. Details: These sites do not belong to the same organization, but management (including backup) has been delegated to a small (two person) firm. PVE boxes on each site are connected to the net using either ADSL or VDSL links...

Sorry for delaying to get back to you. I had a hunch that something in the middle was killing traffic. Since this murder of sorts was assymetric, ie more traffic in the direction from VM to lan seemed to have a problem, I thought that I had to check the lan switch. Specifically, there was a...

This is driving me crazy. I have installed a new PVE installation (4.something). Simple stuff: single pve node (no cluster, nothing advanced) with a single XP VM. Details Host has a single eth0 network adapter. Host has as a single vmbr0 interface Host does not communicate with the internet...

Ok, this is driving me crazy. Now the system behaves as bad as it did with virtio. But I did have excellent boot times with ide! Will keep testing, perhaps I'll be able to find something...

NVM, yes the service is needed; it provides info on what the really used memory by the VM is...

I've seen references to at least a balloon driver as well as to a balloon service. Usually, a balloon device does appear on systems. I don't recall if that is done when the VM is specified with variable memory instead of fixed. In any case, the balloon driver from the virtio tools seems to be...

Still shouldn't virtio writethrough outperform ide writethrough? And, as for 0.1.102, I did not use that because I saw a lot of comments regarding bug fixes and enhancement on the windows 2k12 driver. I don't think that I will see any change though, it's just inexplicable for me.

I set up a VM for 2k12r2. The disk is a sparse raw file, converted from a .vhdx snapshot taken with disk2vhd. The configuration of the system, with the disk connected to ide0 was as follows: agent: 1 balloon: 2048 boot: cd bootdisk: ide0 cores: 2 hotplug: usb ide0...