Um ... that thing about vmdk and qcow being the same ... that's ... not correct. I've never heard anyone say anything like that before. Its so wild that I can't even find a link to refute it.
But anyway, to convert VMDK and QCOW2, you need qemu-utils. Run this ...
qemu-img convert
Um ... you did that yourself, you know. You ran this.
apt update
The correct command is this.
apt-get dist-upgrade.
If you use the GUI to upgrade and watch what it does, it runs this second command. As you've discovered, its not optional. Fabian should have told you so in that post. He's probably tired of relating that message to folks.
This is the correct answer. No, we are not doctors. Yes, it is known that shingles does NOT go away and re-occurs in about 1-10 cases if left untreated. The treatment is a highly effective vaccine that if you are of age you should definitely get regardless of if you've had a shingles flareup previously.
Boy. You asked about Proxmox. Nobody said anything.
How does Proxmox make it easier? Have you used it? All sorts of ways. Like, its a full virtual infrastructure management system instead of just an OS. Proxmox loves ZFS. It does many of the things you've mentioned here.
Proxmox does have its own backup system that can work with an NFS target or with their smart dedupe storage and replication server product. https://www.proxmox.com/en/products/proxmox-backup-server/overview
You've got some pretty advanced ideas and perhaps have already moved beyond the Proxmox question. But if you are curious and haven't used it, spin up a server and give it a whirl.
Who cares? It's over and done. Too late.
You are not done with this disease. It can happen to you again.
The obvious conclusion is: Get the vax.
Nearly as unbelievable, the other way to distribute software was to publish in gaming magazines.
Yes, all the code was printed onto the pages of a magazine. And then young nerds bought these magazines and spent days or weeks manually typing in and debugging the hundreds of lines of BASIC to run some game. And then the magazine would be passed onto the next nerd, like comics and pornography.
My own miserable system was a TI 99/4a with a cassette player for data storage. It sounded like a dial-up modem. I typed in a lot of programs and stored them on tapes. Then I started tearing the developed work apart and building my own stuff. It was years before I could call myself a programmer. (I was twelve.) Line-number BASIC sorta ruined me, actually. Learning about object-oriented functions was quite difficult after starting out with GOTO and GOSUB.
They don't mention it here, but there appears to be a similar broad positive effect from pretty much any vaccination. It seems that firing up the immune system is generally good for you, and the benefits spread to areas seemingly unrelated to the shot itself. This is relatively new info to me. I've never done the seasonal flu vaccine, but I'm going to start, for exactly this reason. Well, that and I'll be there anyway for covid shots ...
I'll go farther and say that its wrong. Evolution may be a random walk, but random walk is a method of getting places. Evolution random walks to the next needed feature. Evolution is not at all blind.
I have one keyboard with its own display, an old G15. I went through all the work to set it up. Used it to track system stats for a week. Went back to my Unicomp and the 'fancy' G15 has sat in my junk pile since.
Keyboards to not need displays. They are for typing. You shouldn't even look at your fingers, let alone a display.
Do it. Jump in. Just start with whatever you can assemble.
It's a great way to keep your room warm.
I don't know about the Ubuntu LCX. I don't container much.
I'd do this with a virtual machine and TrueNAS. Those are just the tools I like to use.
The TrueNAS Scale ISO will install qemu-guest-agent, so you don't need to worry about drivers.
Make sure to build it with Virtio SCSI Single disk controllers.
Use one 50gb OS disk for the install. Add huge data disk(s) after the install.
Promox Disk options ... SSD emulation, Discard, IO Thread, No cache ... and I use Write Back (unsafe).
Use the Virtio NIC.
And try it again. Hopefully faster this time.
Gotta give them credit for being willing to release it at all, but that was the rawest alpha I've ever seen. There are still patches released for it daily. I love the prominently displayed Documentation link at the top that gives you a "Coming Soon" popup.
This app brings some needed cross-cluster migration features, but at this time its so shady as to be unusable. Really. Like if you want to use it, you have to patch the hosts on both side, to match whatever level the PDM is at, and there's no patch level compatibility chart to guide you in that process.
Honestly, I just asked the devs and other forum users for the latest directions in order to get it running, and if you want to try it, that's what you should do too. Because there are no directions. Because this will all change in a week anyway.
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Been working on a jukebox VM. This seems like it will mesh well. Got LMS installed. Muddling through the rest. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-build-a-lms-based-whole-house-audio-system/436016