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    PVE 3.1: apt-get dist-upgrade when offline / no internet connection / all VMs offline

    Hello everybody, I am sure this is a stupid question for someone who is daily working with linux. I have PVE 3.1 running with 2 VMs. One VM is my firewall which is connected to the internet. If I shutdown this VM then proxmox does not have internet access. But I need to shutdown the VMs if I...
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    PVE3.1 + FreeBSD8.3 / pfsense - KVM Hardware Virtualization and VirtIO not possible

    Hi, I am running Proxmox VE 3.1 on a Fujitsu Siemens Primergy TX120 S6 Server with Intel Xeon E1220v2 CPU. I have virtualisation support enabled on the Fujitsu BIOS. I have two VMs running, one is Windows Server 2008R2, and I have KVM Hardware Virtualization enabled on Proxmox. This is...
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    PVE 3.1 - Directory - samba - not mounted after reboot

    Hello, I am using Proxmox VE 3.1 with latest patches and I tried to mount an external buffalo linkstation to store my backups on. I followed this guide: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage_Model#HowTo_mount_a_Windows_.28SaMBa.29_share_on_Proxmox_VE_via_.2Fetc.2Ffstab On this buffalo I created...
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    What format to use for KVM Windows guests - RAW, QCOW2, VMDK

    Hi everybody, I was asking myself what would be the optimal format to chose for performance when using windows guests and KVM. I have a 72GB SAS RAID-1 partition form ProxmoxVE3.0 and 500GB SATA RAID-1 mounted into a directory. My intention is to do snapshots on the VMs and do backups to a...
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    Having more VMs than CPU cores - possible on PVE 3.0?

    Hi, At the moment I am running a server which has 1 physical CPU with 4 cores. All VMs are KVM. Assuming I want to run more than 3 VMs how should I assign the cores? If I run PVE3.0 and 3VMs I give one core per VM and leave one core over for PVE3.0 itself. So I assume that all 3 VMs running on...
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    Accidentially deleted running VM with WinSCP - how to rstore image?

    Hi, I was playing with WinSCP and went to my HDD where I stored the .qcow2 images. /HDD500GB/images/100/ The VM was running and is still running at the moment - I think - on ProxmoxVE 3.0 Unfortunately I clicked delete on this folder because I wanted to delete something else. No the folder...
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    PVE 2.3 - help on understanding the memory usage and CPU/core usage

    Hi, I am using Proxmox VE 2.3 since some weeks - more or less for testing. I do not have much experience with Virtualization just played a little bit with VMware Workstation. My system is a quad core xeon processor with 2.13GHz and 4GB RAM and 72GB SAS HDD RAID1. I installed PVE without...