Virtual Machine Best PracticesΒΆ

REQUIRED: QEMU Guest Agent

Before importing or using any custom virtual machine with NETLAB+ on Proxmox VE, you MUST install qemu-guest-agent.

This is a mandatory requirement, not a recommendation. Without it, VMs will:

  • NOT gracefully start up or shut down - causing potential data corruption

  • Report >90% memory usage even when idle (memory ballooning fails)

  • Fail to shut down gracefully

  • Cannot be snapshotted or migrated reliably

  • Cannot reclaim disk space via guest-trim

Learn more: Proxmox QEMU Guest Agent documentation

See the Converting Virtual Machines guide for OS-specific installation instructions.

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