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virtual-machines

How to Set Up GPU Passthrough in Proxmox VE: A Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide

Give a virtual machine direct control of a real graphics card. This step-by-step guide covers IOMMU, VFIO, and attaching a GPU to a VM for Plex transcoding or gaming.

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How to Rename a Virtual Machine or LXC Container in Proxmox VE

Stuck with a VM called "test123" or a container Proxmox renamed for you after a clone? Here's how to rename both properly, and why a VM's name and a container's hostname aren't the same kind of thing.

backup

How to Restore a VM or LXC Container from a Backup in Proxmox VE (Step-by-Step Guide)

Learn how to restore a full VM or LXC container from a vzdump backup in Proxmox VE using the GUI, qmrestore, and pct restore, including live-restore and choosing a new VMID vs overwriting.

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How to Migrate a Physical Server to Proxmox VE (P2V Guide)

There's no ESXi Import Wizard for bare metal. Here's how to convert a physical server into a Proxmox VE VM using dd/netcat or a Clonezilla network clone, match the firmware type, and fix the VirtIO driver and boot-loader issues that follow.

networking

How to Add a Second Network Interface to a Virtual Machine in Proxmox VE

Learn how to add a second NIC to a Proxmox VE virtual machine through the GUI, wire it to the right bridge, and get it actually working inside Linux and Windows guests.

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How to Import an OVA or OVF Virtual Appliance into Proxmox VE

Proxmox has no one-click OVA import button. Here is the real CLI workflow for extracting an OVA, creating a matching VM, and importing the disk with qm importdisk.

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How to Increase CPU and RAM Resources for a Virtual Machine in Proxmox VE

Learn how to give a Proxmox VE virtual machine more CPU cores and RAM from the web GUI or the command line, including how CPU and memory hotplug work so you can resize without a reboot.

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How to Enable Nested Virtualization in Proxmox VE (Run a VM Inside a VM)

Learn how to safely enable nested virtualization in Proxmox VE so a guest VM can run its own inner VMs, with steps for Intel and AMD, CPU type settings, and the tradeoffs to know first.

storage

How to Move a Virtual Disk to a Different Storage in Proxmox VE

Learn how to relocate a VM or LXC disk to different storage in Proxmox VE using the GUI's Move Storage option or the qm disk move and pct move-volume commands, live and without reinstalling anything.

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