Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/12
This is not what you like when you reboot a VM in Proxmox:
Booting from Hard disk...
Missing operating system
Booting from Hard disk… Missing operating system
This case was a Windows 7 UK Professional x64 SP1 virtual machine.
Luckily the ISO is at https://archive.org/download/en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_676939_201606/en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_676939.iso via https://archive.org/details/en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_676939_201606 (later I found out I had the image in my backup vault as well).
I put that one in /var/lib/vz/template/iso so proxmox will automagically provide it in the local storage of iso images.
Now for some screenshots some based on what I learned at [Archive.is] How to use System Recovery Options for repairing Windows Vista or 7 installations:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/24
Gut feeling indicates I need these someday:
From VHD to Proxmox you need to convert to RAW not IMG:
# qemu-img convert -f vpc -O raw PATH/to/DISK.vhd PATH/to/DISK.raw
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/21
Not sure why yet, but on a gigabit network between a Windows 2008 R2 Server and a Proxmox KVM machine, WinSCP gets around 10 megabit/second and FileZilla > 30 megabit/second.
Others seem to agree that filezilla faster than winscp.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/20
In the 2009 past, sdelete used the -c parameter to zero wipe clean a hard drive and -z would clean it with a random pattern.
That has changed. Somewhere along the lines, -c and -z has swapped meaning which I didn’t notice.
This resulted in many of my virtual machines image backups were a lot larger than they needed to be.
The reason is that now:
-c does a clean free space with a random DoD conformant pattern (which does not compress well)-z writes zeros in the free space
Incidently, -c is a lot slower than -z as well.
TL;DR: use this command
sdelete -z C:
Where C: is the drive to zero clean the free space.
–jeroen
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