Mapping custom qemu config 1-1 to proxmox

[shwouchk]

Hello,

I have a custom qemu launcher that I would like to port 1-1 into proxmox. I tried adding some custom settings to the 'machine: q35' setting in qm.conf (e.g. i8042=off) but I see that the actual called command appends a +pve0 to the q35 machine type.
1. I'm wondering what customizations are there in the pve provided machine type?
2. Also, how to I disable this and use my own? I would like this VM to still be easily portable 1-1 to a non-proxmox environment should the need arise.
3. Finally, I saw mention of smbios1 in qm.conf manual. Is there a possibility to set further smbios fields?

 

[fiona]

Hi,
you can get the full command line that will be used under the hood with qm showcmd <ID> --pretty. It should be portable if you:

• remove the +pve0 suffix from the machine type (I don't think there is a difference currently, we had to do a modification for machine version 4.1, but not since then AFAIK).
• add -cpu kvm64 if you don't already have a -cpu argument (Proxmox VE uses kvm64 instead of qemu64 as a default for backwards compatibility reasons).
• add -accel kvm if you don't already have an -accel argument (used by default in Proxmox VE, again I think for backwards compat/historical reasons).

To set custom options like modifying machine type and other smbios use qm set <ID> --args <your custom options passed directly to kvm>

 

[shwouchk]

Hi fiona,

Thanks for your reply!

So essentially I would set qm set <ID> --args "-machine q35,optionA,optionB"?

 

[fiona]

Hi fiona,

Thanks for your reply!

So essentially I would set qm set <ID> --args "-machine q35,optionA,optionB"?

Yes. This should overwrite the earlier -machine parameter generated by default.