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    How to properly delete a VM.

    Hello, I was wondering how to properly delete a VM and all of its data on the physical storage. The way that I currently do it is I go to more / remove, and check the 2 boxes within the dialogue, as seen in the picture. Does this delete all of the VM's data or keeps it on the physical disk...
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    Help understanding options when removing VM/LXC

    I want to make sure I fully understand these options to make sure I don't delete something I didn't mean to. * Purge from job configuration This one seems pretty straightforward to me, if there are any jobs for backups and stuff like that for the VM/LXC, those jobs will be deleted with the...
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    Deleting several VMs may leave behind Disks

    I'm working on automatically deploying VMs via the API. To update them I delete the old and clone a new one from an uptodate template. During this I noticed that when deleting several VMs some may leave their disk behind. I think I had i happen with 5 VMs but for testing this its easier to just...
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    How to delete webUI VM ghost

    Good evening! Home-labber here. In doing a lab, I wound up deleting a VMs .config file instead of the .lock file and totally hosed my VM. I am not concerned, since this is a VM that I was using to as a test-platform anyway and it has been destroyed and stood back up many times. But I cannot...
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    API Proxmox DeleteVM

    Hello, I would like to know if it is possible with the proxmox API, to make API requests to delete a VM using an html request Thanks in advance for your answers
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    Unable to remove VMs from GUI, CLI, or API

    We have been using Proxmox for years and have a 3 nodes cluster that had been healthy for a while then recently we noticed that VMs couldn't be deleted (destroyed) by any means (GUI, CLI, or the API) We don't see any storage issues that could refer to a problem with file locking, The VM disk...
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    how can i recover the disks of a deleted VM?

    Hi, I deleted a VM knowing that I had the restore backup done the day before (I do Daily Backups), but unfortunately the backup was corrupt, is there any way to recover that VM? I no longer have any disks, I would also need to just recover the disks and then recreate the VM
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    Deleting a VM by mistake - How to recover it

    Hello, I deleted a VM by mistake from the web GUI... o_O I no longer have a backup of this virtual machine. It contains very important data. Do you have a solution to recover this virtual machine or the virtual disk? Currently I'm running a photorec but it doesn't seem to find my deleted...
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    Deleting VM confuses GUI

    Hi, I'm currently experiencing a problem where the live stats for one of my VMs is not showning. What happned was that I had an old VM which I deleted. A short while later (during the same day) I created a new VM and reused the old VMID. I don't know if it is relevant but I also reused the MAC...