Posts made by unquietwiki

For anyone curious, I was trying to migrate a Windows VM from QNAP to Proxmox, and this came in handy. Notes...

1. The VM type can be set to Q35/UEFI.
2. There may be multiple disk images on the QNAP box for the same VM: you need all of them in the same directory for the QCOW tooling to work correctly. Turn off the VM in Virtualization Manager, and copy them over to Proxmox via SSH; you can also download them via File Manager first.
3. importdisk on the latest file; it'll rebuild a RAW file where Proxmox keeps the data.
4. Mount the file in Proxmox as an IDE drive, and don't forget to set the boot order ahead of CD-ROM & Network.
5. https://github.com/virtio-win/virtio-win-pkg-scripts has the latest guest drivers for QEMU/KVM. https://superuser.com/questions/1057959/windows-10-in-kvm-change-boot-disk-to-virtio has some strategies for migrating from IDE to VirtIO; again, don't forget to check the boot order when detaching/re-attaching the disk image. Adding a tiny VirtIO drive while the system was up, shutting down, detaching the two drives & attaching the main as VirtIO; was the working solution for me.

• Side note: unless you remember to look up your virtual MAC address in the QNAP VM, you'll need to reconfigure your network adapter after migration.

@JaredBusch Sounds like one of those "I don't want to mess with the firewall" situations.

@scottalanmiller (waves) Hi everyone! Hope everyone is keeping well with the virus & economy & all that jazz...

@scottalanmiller There's a place I used to work at that I talked into getting an Asterisk system. I should point them here!

@JaredBusch Since Asterisk runs on Linux directly, you'd think you could provision an ed25519 key & have port 22 open in ip/nf tables?

@JaredBusch A PBX? Like Asterisk?

@scottalanmiller I was more active on it 20 years ago, when I first got into IT. Then drifted around other forums before becoming an active Reddit user 10 years ago. I even had my own dial-up BBS in High School, when those were fading out.

@JaredBusch Yeah, he's the one that told me about it. I'm enjoying picking his brain about stuff.

As for myself, I throw myself head-first into open-source projects, debugging stuff, and being happy if stuff works! :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Hey all. I'm new here; some of the ZeroTier folks told me this existed. I made a Reddit post asking for some input; otherwise, I'd like to see some input from here too. Also always looking for resources to share with folks on troubleshooting IT issues.

Side question: anyone ever on Slashdot back in the day?