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Perhaps... What I've done is make two .confs: a .conf.real (with the disks) and a .conf.backup (without). Then in crontab an entry with cp, vzdump, cp. I doubt it gets any simpler than that.

Great, thanks for confirming (assuming the same short and precise answer applies to my first question). Commands are allready in my crontab :-) jan

It seems doable to remove/rem the disk lines (i.e. "virtio1: /dev/sdc1" etc) from the VMID.conf file (with the VM running), do a manual vzdump snapshot and then re add the lines in the conf file. Is this safe? How often and by whom is the conf file read? Only on startup and by vzdump thus...

I didn't even try to mount it as I figured I had to see a partition with fdisk! My mistake, thanks :-)

I will cast a vote on this as well. Assuming that it is more performance efficient to add a hd into a vm, than it is to make a fileserver vm and using NFS to/from the target vm (on same host)?

Hi If I do this with an etx2 or ext3 partition, the partition shows up in the guest as an unformated drive, then I can fdisk, mkfs and mount in the guest. But I want the existing data on the partition in the guest, and it sounds to me that is what is happening to others here? What do I do...

I know, I know, software raid is not supported, so I don't expect any answer from the Proxmox team which is only fair! :-) But I reckon there are a few users out there that might have a clue... I have installed 1.3 from CD on one 320GB 5400rpm 2,5" disk, upgraded to 1.5 and did a raid 1 on an...