Dobrica Pavlinušić's random unstructured stuff

Proxmox: Revision 11

This page will document my expirience with "Proxmox"<http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page> which you might think as web-based version of [vz-tools].

^ Qucik tips

^^ Console using vncviewer

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proxmox1:~# grep vnc /etc/inetd.conf
5901 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/qm qm vncproxy 101 password-for-this-vnc-connection
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This is somewhat interesting story, because I ended up migrating PVE installation on internal laptop disk to enable dual boot. First, I installed PVE on external USB drive (which wiped out mbr on internal disk, sic!) and than archived all files from it to move it to internal disk.

Installed system had following partitions:

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/dev/mapper/pve-root on /mnt/pve type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/pve/boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/mapper/pve-data on /mnt/pve/var/lib/vz type ext3 (rw)
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So I re-created volume grup `pve` and logical volumes.

I have following partitions on my laptop:

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root@tab:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3b7f0ef5

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1305 10482381 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1306 1436 1052257+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 1437 1567 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4 1568 12161 85096305 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1568 4178 20972826 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda6 4179 6789 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 6790 9400 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 9401 12161 22177701 83 Linux
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and I wanted to use `/dev/hda2` as boot and `/dev/hda5` for lvm

^ lvm

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root@tab:~# pvcreate /dev/hda5
Physical volume "/dev/hda5" successfully created
root@tab:~# vgcreate pve /dev/hda5
Volume group "pve" successfully created
root@tab:~# lvcreate -L 1G -n root pve
Logical volume "root" created
root@tab:~# lvcreate -L 10G -n data pve
Logical volume "data" created
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^ create file systems

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root@tab:~# mke2fs -j -m 0 /dev/hda2
root@tab:~# mke2fs -j -m 0 /dev/pve/root
root@tab:~# mke2fs -j -m 0 /dev/pve/data
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^ mount fs

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root@tab:~# mkdir /mnt/pve/
root@tab:~# mount /dev/pve/root /mnt/pve/
root@tab:~# mkdir /mnt/pve/boot
root@tab:~# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/pve/boot/
root@tab:~# mkdir -p /mnt/pve/var/lib/vz
root@tab:~# mount /dev/pve/data /mnt/pve/var/lib/vz/

root@tab:~# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/pve-root 1032088 34104 997984 4% /mnt/pve
/dev/hda2 1035692 34108 1001584 4% /mnt/pve/boot
/dev/mapper/pve-data 10321208 154232 10166976 2% /mnt/pve/var/lib/vz
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^ unpack installation

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root@tab:~# cd /mnt/pve/
root@tab:/mnt/pve# tar xvfj /mnt/usb/proxmox-ve_1.1-3664.tar.bz2

root@tab:/mnt/pve# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/pve-root 1032088 521128 510960 51% /mnt/pve
/dev/hda2 1035692 50868 984824 5% /mnt/pve/boot
/dev/mapper/pve-data 10321208 154268 10166940 2% /mnt/pve/var/lib/vz
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^ grub

add Proxmox target into `/boot/grub/menu.lst` after `END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST`

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root@tab:~# tail -10 /boot/grub/menu.lst
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

title Proxmox Virtual Environment, kernel 2.6.24-2-pve
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.24-2-pve root=/dev/mapper/pve-root ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.24-2-pve
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^ preference df

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proxmox:~# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/pve/root 2064208 556244 1507964 27% /
/dev/sda2 2063536 52640 1906072 3% /boot
/dev/mapper/pve-data 20642428 407420 20235008 2% /var/lib/vz
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