Category Archives: Virtualisation

Testing environment setup using Vagrant

Posted on 2017-09-11 by Gerhard

Setting up a test environment with many different operating systems and versions can be a time consuming task. Installing the different operating systems and configuring them for tests or development can take up a lot of time. Vagrant makes this … Continue reading →

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Shrink sparse cqow2 disc image

Posted on 2016-03-30 by Gerhard

There might be cases when a VM temporarily used a lot of disk space which is then not needed any more. The sparse disk image format qcow2 will grow as the disk space is used, but it does not automatically shrink. … Continue reading →

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Resize Proxmox VM disc via command line without LiveCD

Posted on 2015-11-09 by Gerhard

To increase the disc size from the command line, login to the Proxmox host. In the command line you can list the VMs configured by this command to find the VMID needed. For this example the VM with the VMID … Continue reading →

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Network Interface order with Proxmox

Posted on 2013-11-11 by Gerhard

When you create a Proxmox virtual machine (KVM), the network interfaces may not always be in the order you want them to be. The order of the network interfaces is not only defined by an order in Proxmox. It is … Continue reading →

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