#virtual-machines
Every post tagged virtual-machines.
Blog posts
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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