[PVE-User] Private Network in Proxmox

Martin Maurer martin at proxmox.com
Tue Dec 8 17:02:07 CET 2009


Hi,

> Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Private Network in Proxmox
> 
> Excellent. It worked!
> 
> I have a lot more simple questions like this one which are fairly basic
> for KVM, (Does a Cluster actually replicate the data, or just depend on
> a shared file system?

no replication, but take a look here:
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/DRBD

in future there could be a replication but nothing to use I a production system yet.

> Does a drive setup as a VIRTIO drive still appear
> to be a standard IDE disk for the initial install?

Virtio is Virto. You need drivers in the guest to do the initial install, or install ide and convert later.

> Can a VM be backed
> up using an external backup program, etc...)

Yes, why not? 

> But I don't want to be a
> bother... so is there basic KVM documentation I can study to answer my
> questions?

The primary place for Proxmox VE is our wiki: http://pve.proxmox.com 
(see also the KVM project wiki http://www.linux-kvm.org/ and the OpenVZ wiki http://wiki.openvz.org)


Br, Martin

> 
> Thanks for any input.
> 
> 
> --Matt Ross
> Ephrata School District
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dietmar Maurer
> [mailto:dietmar at proxmox.com]
> To: Matthew W. Ross
> [mailto:mross at ephrataschools.org], pve-user at pve.proxmox.com
> [mailto:pve-user at pve.proxmox.com]
> Sent: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:45:31
> -0800
> Subject: RE: [PVE-User] Private Network in Proxmox
> 
> 
> > > If I wanted to setup a private network in ProxMox, how would I do
> it?
> > >
> > > Just create a bridge with no physical adapters attached?
> >
> >
> > yes
> >
> >
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