VM support files - where to put them

[drjaymz@]

For some historical reason some of our VM's have kernel and init ram files. We specify these using the args shown at the bottom.

I had putthe files into a network share that has been added to the proxmox host via cifs. Initially I put these files [vmlinuz-2.4.21-144-smp4G] into /etc/pve/qemu-server
but thats only 128Mb and not really the best place anyway.
I am wanting to run this in HA mode, which means wherever I put them, the path must be identical between nodes.

I don't really like files all over the place (although everyone else seems to do that) so I want to know the best place for these, and I'm willing to get that the migrate / backup facilities will miss them wherever they are, leading to non-recoverable backups / snapshots or HA failover.

args: -kernel '/mnt/pve/pittolm/wmstol1/vmlinuz-2.4.21-144-smp4G' -initrd '/mnt/pve/pittolm/wmstol1/initrd-2.4.21-144-smp4G' -append 'root=/dev/sda ro console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200 3'
boot: 
cores: 4
memory: 8192
meta: creation-qemu=7.0.0,ctime=1662631990
name: wmsvtol3
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: l26
runningcpu: kvm64,enforce,+kvm_pv_eoi,+kvm_pv_unhalt,+lahf_lm,+sep
runningmachine: pc-i440fx-7.0+pve0
scsi0: local-zfs:vm-101-disk-2,size=25G
scsi1: local-zfs:vm-101-disk-0,size=4G
scsi2: local-zfs:vm-101-disk-1,size=25G
serial0: socket
smbios1: uuid=8e9800b4-82bc-4aa9-b9ea-20b8d3a6eda3
snaptime: 1662721658
sockets: 1
vmstate: local-zfs:vm-101-state-dd_test

 

[Dunuin]

I guess a shared storage like NFS or ceph is your best option then. In case you use a PBS you could also back them up with the proxmox-backup-client.