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Creating a Proxmox VM without a Template

disk disk default 32 gb, discard on, <hostname>fs storage

cpu default 4 CPU for SoCS, 2 for Student, or another number choose host

mem balooning on

net bridging with firewall on vmbr0 for all VMs vmbr1 for VMs with SoCS server backend network if migrating, reuse the mac addr of the existing machine. Note that mac's must be distinct on a lan, so you won't be able to have both running at once if you do this.

Creating a Proxmox VM with a Template

Migrating from KVM

copy /var/lib/libvirt/image/ qcow2 file to proxmox host (check the timestamp or config to make sure you get the active disk for the vm you are migrating)

to import the disk run: qm importdisk <VMID> <disk>.qcow2 <proxmox storage pool name> This creates a second disk for your target vm.

THERE BE DRAGONS:

You can now start the new target vm and confirm that the services still function

final steps: