Cloning KVM virtual machine using CLI Rumi, July 21, 2021 To clone your VM and spawn new instances in KVML # virt-clone –original {Domain-Vm-Name-Here} –auto-clone OR # virt-clone –original {Domain-Vm-Name-Here} –name {New-Domain-Vm-Name-Here} –auto-clone OR # virt-clone –original {Domain-Vm-Name-Here} \ –name {New-Domain-Vm-Name-Here} –file {/var/lib/libvirt/images/File.Name.here} Continue Reading
Clone KVM-based Virtual Machines on Redhat / CentOS Linux Rumi, February 24, 2020 Prerequisite: Operating System and Software Versions Operating System: – Redhat 7.3 Software: – libvirtd (libvirt) 2.0.0 Obtain Source Virtual Machine’s information Before we begin cloning any virtual machine we first need to obtain some basic information about it. The absolute minimum information required about the source virtual machine we are… Continue Reading
Install Qemu Guest Agent on Proxmox Rumi, December 21, 2019 The qemu-guest-agent is a helper daemon, which is installed in the guest. It is used to exchange information between the host and guest, and to execute command in the guest. In Proxmox VE, the qemu-guest-agent is used for mainly two things: To properly shutdown the guest, instead of relying on… Continue Reading
Converting OVA for use with KVM / QCOW2 Rumi, September 21, 2018February 18, 2019 The OVA file is nothing more than a TAR archive, containing the .OVF and .VMDK files. Easy! Using Evergreen ILS for example: ~ $ file Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ova Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ova: POSIX tar archive (GNU). I’ts possible to use the tar command to list the contents ~ $ tar -tf Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ova Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ovf Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze-disk1.vmdk Simply… Continue Reading
Convert .ova and import it on Proxmox KVM virtualization Rumi, January 8, 2018 Let’s start uploading the exported ova file to the proxmox server. Extract the OVA file: tar -xvf *.ova This should output a couple of files from the OVA container, it should include an OVF file, which is the VM Defenition file, and a VMDK file, which is the actual hard… Continue Reading
KVM Network Bridge configuration Rumi, March 9, 2012 # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo br1 eth1 br0 eth0 iface lo inet loopback Continue Reading