Posted August 10th, 2011 by Griffon in category
PROXMOX VE
Hello World,
Today, I'll blog about one of my favourite topic : Proxmox VE. I recently received a question about the possibility to modify the default settings presented to you when creating a kvm virtual machine. By default, when you are creating a kvm virtual machine, you will get the following web page.
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Posted June 10th, 2011 by Griffon in category
PROXMOX VE
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I'vn't got much time to play around with Proxmox VE lately but still I managed to find some to experiment something. As you probably know, it's possible to install and boot a system from usb stick when using software like VMware ESXi or Hyper-V. I was wondering if this would be an option with Proxmox VE. Guess what ? Yes,
Posted May 21st, 2011 by Griffon in category
PROXMOX VE
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Recently, I've received a request to provide some additional information about VLAN configuration and ProxMox VE. Because I have a limited hardware here and because I'm currently travelling, I'll try to provide with this post a basic configuration walkthrough. The scenario hasn't been fully tested but this should be working.
This
Posted May 17th, 2011 by Griffon in category
PROXMOX VE
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Today, I'll finish the discussion about the Virtio Drivers and how to install Windows 2003 (32-bit or 64 bit) operating system from scratch while using the virtio disk type. In part 1, we have seen that in order to perform the installation of Windows 2003 virtual machine configured to use virtio disk type, you would need to mount a
Posted May 14th, 2011 by Griffon in category
PROXMOX VE
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In my previous post, we had a deeper look into the kvm virtual machines and settings that could be configured when creating your virtual machines. We have mentioned that in order to improve performance, it was a good practice to use the paravirtualized drivers for Windows Operating Systems. This post will describe how you can
Posted May 1st, 2011 by Griffon in category
PROXMOX VE
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USB devices are more and more present and in use within organizations. Nowadays, plugging in a usb device on a physical computer running Windows or Linux is a breeze. This operation has becomed quite common. Time to time, when working with virtual machines, you might need to present a USB device inside the virtual machine.
Posted April 24th, 2011 by Griffon in category
PROXMOX VE
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It' has been a quite long time since I've been posting some news. Now, you probably know I'm kinda busy with IT projects and this does not let me enough time to blog over Proxmox VE. So far,I've been mainly discussing on how to install Proxmox VE software and get your infrastructure up and running. In a previous
Posted April 22nd, 2011 by Griffon in category
PROXMOX VE
Some News From ProxMox VE (version 1.8 is out & version 2 (beta) is on the way)!
Hello World,
This post will be quite short. It's just to let you know that the ProxMox VE team is working hard on upcoming an new releases of their open source virtualization solution. If you visit their wiki web site, you will noticed that
Posted February 20th, 2011 by Griffon in category
VMWare
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Recently, I had to install ESXi on unsupported hardware. The installation was intended to be used as test infrastructure and play ground for people with few Vmware knowledge. This was the first time for me that I had to perform the installation on unsupported hardware... I had to "Google" quite a bit in order to come up with a
Posted February 6th, 2011 by Griffon in category
PROXMOX VE
Hello World,
Update information :
This procedure has been tested with the latest version of Proxmox VE 1.9 and it's still working !
If you want to deploy Proxmox VE 2.0, You should use the procedure described at http://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=1628. The process is much simpler and faster. Proxmox VE 2.0 natively support