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Provisioning a Proxmox VM
- Preparing the machine configuration
- Upload your ISO
- Creating the VM
- Install and start the VM
- Remove the VM
- Move to other node
Preparing the machine configuration
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It is nicer if the machine is a QEMU guest. On NixOS:
services.qemuGuest.enable = true -
Choose static IPs for your machine. The IPv4 and IPv6 subnets available for Fediversity testing are:
- 95.215.187.0/24. Gateway is 95.215.187.1.
- 2a00:51c0:13:1305::/64. Gateway is 2a00:51c0:13:1305::1.
Upload your ISO
- Upload your ISO
- In the node you want, `local` storage. ISO images. Upload. You can also download from URL.
Creating the VM
- Click “Create VM” at the top right corner.
- Tick “advanced” at the bottom.
General
- Node
- which actual machine you want to run; same as the ISO
- VM ID
- Has to be unique
- Name
- Resource pool
- Fediversity
OS
- Storage
- local, means storage of the node.
- ?
- Choose what you want.
System
- BIOS
- OVMF (UEFI)
- EFI Storage
- `linstor_storage`; this is a storage shared by all of the Proxmox machines.
- Pre-Enroll keys
- MUST be unchecked
- Qemu Agent
- check
Disks
- Disk size (GiB)
- 40
- SSD emulation
- check
- Discard
- check, so that
CPU
- Sockets
- 1
- Cores
- 2
- Enable NUMA
- check
Memory
- Memory (MiB)
- choose what you want
- Ballooning Device
- leave checked
Network
- Bridge
- When creating the VM, select the provisioning bridge (`vnet1306`). Once created, switch
- Firewall
- uncheck, we will handle the firewall on the VM itself
Confirm
Install and start the VM
- You see the VM on the left side.
- Click, go to console, start it.
- Install it
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Once the VM has been installed:
- Go to the VM, Hardware, remove the CD/DVD Drive.
- Switch bridge to public
vnet1305
- Datacenter > SDN > VNets
Remove the VM
- Click on the VM. Make sure it is shut down.
- Shutdown sends a sigshutdown. If the machine doesn't listen to it, use the tiny arrow, choose Stop, check overrule and click.
- More > Remove. Enter the ID. Purge from job. Destroy unreference disks.
Move to other node
- Make sure there is no ISO plugged in.
- Click on the VM. Click migrate. Choose target node. Go.
- Since the storage is shared, it should go pretty fast (~1 minute).