Proxmox

Links

• Proxmox VE Administration Guide

FAQ

Error: VM quit/powerdown failed - got timeout

qm stop VMID

 

serial console from command line

qm terminal <id}

enable serial console in guest

• https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Serial_Terminal

looks like this is not needed:

systemctl enable serial-getty@ttyS0.service

in /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=ttyS0 console=tty0"

ttyS0 is for qm terminal, tty0 is for the "console" buttion in UI

1. debian based

update-grub

1. redhat based

grub2-mkconfig --output=/boot/grub2/grub.cfg

 

add

serial0: socket

to /etc/pve/qemu-server/[vmid].conf and restart

 

agetty: /dev/ttyS0: not a device

systemctl status useless again, means the serial bit is missing from <vmid>.conf

TASK ERROR: command 'apt-get update' failed: exit code 100

subtle way of telling you to get subscription of at least change the sources list

Import vmdk to lvm

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu/KVM_Virtual_Machines#_importing_virtual_machines_and_disk_images