Vm creations and settings

[il_dandi]

Hi! I've new promox installation and now I'd like to install Debian and Win 2008.

I've uploaded 2 images ISO files...

I've to create 2 VM, now I start with linux VM

What do you suggest me to set for

Disk space (GB):
Memory (MB):
VMID:
Start at boot: (when select this???)
Image Format:

CPU Sockets:
Bridge: vmbr1 or vmbr2????


Another questio, in "ISO Storage" and "Disk Storage" I show my local with 858 GB... what I've to show here?? When do I've to use these 2 options?

Thanks

 

[tom]

diskspace: how big is the first HDD in the guest
memory: ram for the guest
VMID: just use the given one
Start at boot: enabling this option means that the VM starts when the host starts
Image Format: for the virtual disk (use raw, better performance as its raw)
CPU: number of sockets. you can change this later, especially for windows licensing its a relevant setting.
Bridge: depends on your network. default is vmbr0

local storage is all below /var/lib/vz. this includes local ISO images, templates, OpenVZ containers and VM disks for KVM.

 

[il_dandi]

Thanks for your detailed replies

diskspace: how big is the first HDD in the guest

first HDD?? Do you mean HD space for each VM??
I've to install debian and windows 2008 .... can you give an idea of space for each OS?

memory: ram for the guest

for guest?? For each VM?
Can you give me an idea ... for linux VM (where I'll provide http services) and for Windows 2008 (same services)??

Start at boot: enabling this option means that the VM starts when the host starts

So this mean that I've to enable for both VM that I'm creating??
I want to have always on line these 2 VM.

CPU: number of sockets. you can change this later, especially for windows licensing its a relevant setting.

Can I change only this parameter later?? or also above settings could be changed later?

Bridge: depends on your network. default is vmbr0

When I've to change this?

local storage is all below /var/lib/vz. this includes local ISO images, templates, OpenVZ containers and VM disks for KVM.

Do you that I'll find all files in /var/lib/vz folder??
promox files, my virtual machines files.... this could be folder there I'll find all datas for backup?


Thank for help me!

 

[il_dandi]

I would like to start my first VM installation... please can you reply to these my questions?

Thanks

 

[udo]

I would like to start my first VM installation... please can you reply to these my questions?

Thanks

Perhaps you should simple try to install a vm - it's very fast and after that you can easy destroy them. You can also boot an live-cd to see you disks (vm), network and so on.

Udo

 

[il_dandi]

Yes!! I want to create a text but I'd like to know right settings....

"Start at boot" is to set (check) for all 2 my VM (linux and windows)?

(and other question of my post above)

Thanks

 

[udo]

Like tom wrote before:
Start at boot means: If you reboot your proxmox host, all VMs which have start at boot selected will startet automaticly. The other VM must be started manual (or with an script).
Good for importand things like an router inside a VM...

Just play a little bit with the VMs and the proxmox-gui

Udo

 

[il_dandi]

VMs which have start at boot selected will startet automaticly.

So I could flag this options for both my 2 VM... because I need that these machine are always on line


Can you reply to these my 2 questions

Can you give me an idea of how many memory I've to assign for each VM:
- linux VM (where I'll provide http services)
- Windows 2008 (same services)??

local storage is all below /var/lib/vz. this includes local ISO images, templates, OpenVZ containers and VM disks for KVM.

Do you mean that here I'll find all my promox files in /var/lib/vz: my virtual machines files, my settings.... this folder could be used for create a backup using files inside (because here I've all files to copy) .... right?

Thanks

 

[udo]

So I could flag this options for both my 2 VM... because I need that these machine are always on line


Can you reply to these my 2 questions








Thanks

Hi,
i can't say how much memory you need. If you have a linux-box (without gui, like kde) for DNS you reach with 512MB without problems - depends on you DNS (if you are google this is not enough).
For a webserver you can give more, but if you only serve static content you need also not very much ram. But often ram helps a lot for speed (cacheíng).
Perhaps you should start with 1G for each and look how this run's.

in /var/lib/vz you will find template/iso -> for you iso-images (to install a kvm from)
template/cache -> for openvz-templates
images -> for your harddisk-files of your kvm-VMs
private -> for your chroot-enviroment of openvz-VMs

your configs are not there! there are in /etc/qemu-server and /etc/vz/conf.

For backup you must define a directory (or nfs-mount) - it's allways a good idea if the backup-files are not on the same disk like the VMs!!

Udo