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PROXMOX VM Tips

Help! My VM won't shutdown!

  • Stop the current shutdown task by clicking on the task in the Tasks List
  • Press Stop
  • Click the dropdown next to Shutdown in the top right and select "Stop"

Help! My VM randomly suspends!

  • Edit Power Plan in Windows to never sleep hard disks and never sleep display

Increase the hard drive space of a PROXMOX VM:

  1. Shut down the VM
  2. Run the command: (Example: qm resize 100 ide0 +150G)
  3. qm resize [VM_ID] [DISK_NAME] +[SIZE_INCREASE]G
  4. Start the VM
  5. Go into Disk Management, right-click the drive you want to add the additional storage to and press extend volume
  6. As a general rule. Windows only allows you to extend partitions that are next to each other. If you your new unallocated volume is NOT physically next to your main partition, you will have to use a third party tool to "move" it next to it. I recommend > https://www.diskpart.com/download-home.html < The free version of this software has a solid and tested feature to re-arrange partitions on a physical drive. After using this tool to move your partition structure, you should now be able to complete 5.
  7. Send it.
  • In order to decrease the size of your VM volume, do these steps in reverse.
    • Shrink the volume in windows
    • Write down the amount of space you shrunk the volume by in G
    • qm resize [VM_ID] [DISK_NAME] -[SIZE_INCREASE]G
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