HW changes stay orange

[Wexy101]

SuperNube here, giving Proxmox a shot given the good reviews but finding it difficult to visualise the virtual infrastructure of the system, hopefully i'll get better at that.

The probelm i'm having is i make changes to the HW of a VM and their in orange, how do i apply the changes (1 is simply remove cd drive) I have rebooted.

 

[t.lamprecht]

Hi,

The probelm i'm having is i make changes to the HW of a VM and their in orange, how do i apply the changes (1 is simply remove cd drive) I have rebooted.

Not all hardware or configuration changes to Virtual Machines or Containers can be hot-plugged live, those are then recorded as pending change and show up highlighted orange to visualize that it is not yet applied.

To apply such changes a full guest reboot is required, note that if you trigger the reboot from inside the VM, that VM may not really fully stop and thus the changes do not get applied.
What always works is using the reboot of the VM or CT from the Proxmox VE interface - or naturally a powerdown and new start of that VM/CT.

Hope that helps!

 

[Wexy101]

Perfect, thank you for the detailed responce, i had indeed rebooted form inside the VM, Using proxmax to reboot the VM resulted in the changes applying.

THanks again

 

[Pca]

the cloudinit drive is such an object which cannot be changed in a running machine, for example if you want to move ALL storage into a new one.

 

[neail]

Hi,

Not all hardware or configuration changes to Virtual Machines or Containers can be hot-plugged live, those are then recorded as pending change and show up highlighted orange to visualize that it is not yet applied.

To apply such changes a full guest reboot is required, note that if you trigger the reboot from inside the VM, that VM may not really fully stop and thus the changes do not get applied.
What always works is using the reboot of the VM or CT from the Proxmox VE interface - or naturally a powerdown and new start of that VM/CT.

Hope that helps!

Thank you for clarifying that VM self-reboot and Hypervisor reboot are different.

 

[Neobin]

Related:
https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2205

 

[hawxxer]

Is this fixed, because I can't get it to accept the changes.
Scenario is as follow:
VM is started, I recognize I missconfigured something and change it in options/hardware tab. The old value get crossed out and the new settings are orange under the crossed out. I shutdown the machine / reset / restart over the proxmox gui. The orange settings stay the same and won't get applied. Do I have to click something else? For now I click revert settings and reapply them when the vm is off.
Reloading the webgui won't help it just stays orange

Edit
Now it works, but often it does not. Maybe 1 of 10 it works.