Chapter 5. Working with Virtual Disks
Chapter 4, Creating a Virtual Machine, introduced the creation of virtual machines using the Proxmox VE management interface as well as the command line. After an outline of common steps in the procedure, we quickly glossed over creating two virtual machines with two network operating systems: Windows Server 2012r2 and Fedora 23 Server.
Our most fundamental goal with this chapter is to empower ourselves to make more informed and fully-deliberated decisions affecting the efficiency and reliability of a Proxmox VE virtual machine guest based on its specific use case.
We will accomplish this goal by achieving the following concrete objectives:
- Choose deliberately from among virtual disk image formats available for use through the Proxmox VE interface
- Choose an appropriate bus/interface by which a virtual disk will connect to a guest
- Choose an appropriate cache setting for our use cases
In this chapter, then, we elaborate on one...
