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Essentially it is still just a filesystem with some special scripts for first boot though, at least for the linux case. Or am I missing a more important point? If backing up and then restoring to a different ID is equivalent then that's a workable solution, but the point to us of using...

Hi, thanks for the reply- it's true that those are issues that need to be considered when cloning a VM, however I think it's up to the admin who created the VM to ensure they are appropriate for cloning. For example you could clone from a master image that on first boot can generate any unique...

I see that images in LVM are marked as available for a particular VM by being tagged. LVM snapshots may not be tagged, so we'd have to snapshot, copy to a new clone image from the snapshot, then tag it and add to a VM. This still leaves us having to manually create another VM definition, so in...

Hi, great to see progress on the storage front with the new 1.4 release. It seems from the wiki documentation the preferred usage is to export storage to the proxmox machine over iscsi, then manage that storage locally using LVM to provide disks for VMs. Commonly we create a new VM by cloning...

Didelo: Interesting points regarding OpenVZ, and I can certainly see why many find it useful at the moment. It seems to me it is a technical stop gap solution in most respects that will eventually die away, but right now it does have some particular advantages over KVM in resource utilisation...

Interestingly in comparison to the other replies, I would say it appears as though virtualisation solutions like OpenVZ and Xen who continually have problems keeping up with kernel development have their days numbered. RedHat are going with KVM in a big way. We have been using Xen extensively...

We have no use for OpenVZ, so using a standard kernel not only has the benefit of being up to date but makes it easier to perform custom kernel upgrades as we can ignore the OpenVZ patches. We are considering this anyway- is it possible to roll a standard KVM compatible kernel without any...

This is a good point, thanks. We will look at how we can migrate our older Xen images so they contain a bootloader. I can see now that the args option is already supported from the wiki FAQ page, thanks.

Thanks for supporting this use case. Is this something you have added recently and will be available in the next release, or is that something already present in 1.3? I presume you mean that to support this I will need to create the VM via the web UI and then edit the cfg file on disk (e.g...

Great! Look forward to trying it. We have many VMs running under Xen where the root fs storage is an LVM volume. The kernel and initrd are stored seperately and booted by xen upon domain creation, supplying the block device as the root fs to the kernel params. The KVM equivalent seems to...

Hi, thanks for your work on Proxmox. There are a couple of things I'd like to be able to do and I'm not sure if they're already possible (compared to launching a KVM process manually). * Attaching block devices (and iSCSI volumes) directly to a VM. I understand this is in the roadmap for 2.0...