Virtualization

Overview In the following article, we’ll go through the steps how to convert Virtualbox VMs to QEMU/KVM hypervisor, or in another words, how to convert VM files from VDI to QCOW2 extenstion. This process is useful especially when you need to migrate from virtualbox to KVM or just want to try out the KVM hypervisor without the need to create new machines from the start. What is VDI? VDI(Virtual desktop infrastructure) is an file extension of the HDD disc image file for an Virtual machines that are commonly used by hypervisor solutions such as Virtualbox. ...

Add Synology NAS on Proxmox using CIFS/SMB Overview Proxmox offers multiple features and tools to expand and add storage, such as NFS and CIFS network shares. These are great options not for just storage expansion but these are great options to add backup locations as well. Since Synology also supports these storage protocols, this article will cover the steps how to add Synology NAS on Proxmox using CIFS (in other words, we’ll be creating the Proxmox SMB share and adding Synology ). ...