Nested virtualization allows to run a hypervisor inside a VM. You have a VM running in Proxmox, and that VM is running another VM. The guest VM is the host for another guest VM: Host -> VM => runs another VM. The Proxmox Wiki contains some more information about the Read more…
After installing a new VM guest on Proxmox you may see in the overview page of the host that no guest agent is configured. In the options section the guest agent is listed das disabled. Setting up the guest agent is an optional task. The VM runs perfectly fine without Read more…
Proxmox is for running VMs. It offers support for Linux Containers, but there is no build in support for Docker containers. This does not mean that you cannot run Docker on Proxmox. You won’t get native integration into Proxmox, which means that you need to use a different software to Read more…
Some time ago I wanted to add a new mount point for Docker files in Proxmox. As Proxmox uses logical volumes to manage its storage, I had to find out how to assign a 200 GB part out of the data volume. Proxmox does this automatically when a new VM Read more…
It is easy to install SAP HXE on Proxmox. It’s just 3 steps. Preparation Install HXE Additional configuration Preparation Before you can run HXE, first you have to download the files from SAP and configure a Proxmox VM for HXE and import the OVA image. I wrote a blog on Read more…
OVA is a virtual appliance, ready to run on a hypervisor. With an OVA file, you can import the image into VirtualBox, VMWare, etc and all needed information is loaded from the file and you can start the VM. This works as long as your hypervisor is capable of reading Read more…