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    Missing feature(s) - VM disk identification (notes), disk deactivation and more detailed backup handling

    Feature Request 1 - VM Disk Identification (Notes) There are numerous situations where it's crucial to be able to identify the individual disk images of a VM, for example, to perform a specific action such as resizing or moving them. Unfortunately, identifying images is currently quite...
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    The lack of impact of freeing up VM space on the Proxmox node

    Hello, When I delete files or free up space within a virtual machine (VM), it doesn't directly translate to an equivalent decrease in the overall disk usage of the Proxmox node . it seems that it does not affect on proxmox node. what can i do?
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    LXC, trust of default templates

    A friend starting into using Proxmox asked me a question today which I didn't offhand know the answer to and couldn't find a definitive answer on here. How do you know the LXC templates are trustworthy? LXC containers (as in the templates pulled down from pveam), I'm guessing they're pulled...
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    How to convert VMA to a QEmu loadable format?

    So I just backed up my Proxmox VM's and got rid of proxmox since I want to use this machine for QEmu instead. The problem is QEmu don't support VMA so how can I convert VMA to QEmu without Promox?
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    How to mount disk/snapshot read only in other VM (or better approaches)?

    I'm currently looking for a way to mount a snapshot (local ZFS storage) of a VM disk read only in another VM. My best find so far is this article about moving virtual disks: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Moving_disk_image_from_one_KVM_machine_to_another . But this involves a lot of renaming...
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    [SOLVED] Backup question in "/var/lib/vz/dump"

    So I use gzip to as the backup format for all my containers when saving them into tar files, but I also noticed a "vzdump-lxc*-.tmp" directory found in /var/lib/vz/dump and stood out amongst all the ".tar.gz" files so I am wondering what this is, and why is it a directory unlike the tar files...