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Proxmox Cookbook

You're reading from   Proxmox Cookbook Over 60 hands-on recipes to perform server virtualization and manage virtualized server solutions with Proxmox

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783980901
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Wasim Ahmed Wasim Ahmed
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing Proxmox 2. Getting to Know the Proxmox GUI FREE CHAPTER 3. Cluster and VM Management 4. Network Configurations 5. Firewall Configurations 6. Storage Configurations 7. Backup and Restore 8. Updating and Upgrading Proxmox 9. Monitoring Proxmox 10. Advanced Configurations for VMs 11. The CLI Command Reference Index

Configuring a hotplug


In this section, we will see how to configure a hotplugging option in Proxmox virtual machines. Using the hotplugging feature, we can add and remove devices from a VM without restarting or power cycling the VM.

Getting ready

There are four device types that we can hotplug in a VM:

  • Disk

  • Network Interface Card (NIC)

  • CPU

  • Memory

As of Proxmox 3.4, we can only hotplug the CPU and memory, but cannot unplug them. Both the disk and Network Interface Card (NIC) can be hotplugged and unplugged. The following table shows the device types that are supported in different operating systems:

Device

Kernel support

Hotplug/unplug

OS

Disk

All

This is available for both OSes.

This is available for all versions of Linux/Windows.

NIC

All

This is available for both OSes.

This is available for all versions of Linux/Windows.

CPU

> 3.10

Hotplug is available only for Windows, whereas, both hotplug and unplug are available for Linux.

This is available for all versions of Linux and...

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