Tag: vm
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How to pass through a USB device to a Windows Virtualbox VM
Running a Mac with Windows running in a Virtualbox virtual machine? Here’s how to pass through a USB device so that whenever the VM (Virtual Machine) is running and the USB device is plugged into a USB port it appears in the Windows VM and not in Mac OS X. Open up Virtualbox and make…
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Proxmox KVM virtual machine: Cannot delete due to missing storage
Today we encountered a situation where a Proxmox system’s KVM virtual machine refused to delete after the storage volume that it’s virtual HDD resided on was lost; trying to delete the KVM from the web GUI resulted in the following error: TASK ERROR: storage ‘proxmoxHDD’ does not exists Attempting to delete it from…
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How to kill a KVM virtual machine in Promox via the command line or terminal
Sometimes a Proxmox KVM VM will stop responding to the GUI’s attempts to shut it down; fortunately it’s easy to shut it down from the command line. Make note of the VM ID (next to the name of the VM in the left pane of the Proxmox GUI), log into the server via SSH…
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Proxmox 3.2: Enabling NFS on a container (CT) VM
If you’re trying to figure out why you are getting NFS errors despite having NFS set up properly on the host machine and client VM, this may be the answer. With the VM powered off, run at the Proxmox terminal: vzctl set [VM ID] –features “nfs:on” –save The next time the VM…
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XenServer 6.2: Which VM type to use for Fedora 20 Live CD installation?
We were asked this today – we have found that the “Other Media” works fine for installation and use, where other options (Red Hat options, for example) don’t work.