[SOLVED] Can someone please help I've messed up my environment by trying to rename a node

[seath46]

Hi, I was following this tutorial to rename my node on my server but it has broken my VM and I have no idea how to fix it

This was the tutorial https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0633.html


As you can see my node was originally called pve but I've accidentally made a new one and called it vm-dev. It looks like it's moved over the storage databases but my VM won't open or anything and I guess its got confused with the directory path.

 

[C8Z06]

I am fairly new myself ... but could you do things in reverse to put it back?

If it were ME (assuming you have a backup on the VM) I might blow things away and start over. I am not confident enough in my abilities to carry on not knowing if there is some issue lurking that will haunt me forever.

 

[rason]

I advise reversing the changes that you've applied (you may use the history command for that) and then following the official Proxmox guide on renaming PVE nodes: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Renaming_a_PVE_node

 

[seath46]

Hi all,

I did the "mv /etc/pve/nodes/$OLD_HOSTNAME/qemu-server/*.conf /etc/pve/nodes/$NEW_HOSTNAME/qemu-server/" command and it seemed to move the VM to the new vm-dev node. I had already pasted that command in before but it never did anything so I guess it just didn't want to work first try. The VM seems to be working accordingly but I'm gonna try and back it up in case I break my proxmox server again lol.

Thanks for the help!