From: Thomas Lamprecht Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2019 11:56:31 +0000 (+0200) Subject: qm: add System panel related docs with screenshot X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-docs.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=d3c003743880eba62b95746ae2f60001420d20fc qm: add System panel related docs with screenshot Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht --- diff --git a/images/screenshot/gui-create-vm-system.png b/images/screenshot/gui-create-vm-system.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..46ff54f Binary files /dev/null and b/images/screenshot/gui-create-vm-system.png differ diff --git a/qm.adoc b/qm.adoc index 4f9ae15..cf39226 100644 --- a/qm.adoc +++ b/qm.adoc @@ -117,11 +117,34 @@ OS Settings [thumbnail="screenshot/gui-create-vm-os.png"] -When creating a VM, setting the proper Operating System(OS) allows {pve} to -optimize some low level parameters. For instance Windows OS expect the BIOS -clock to use the local time, while Unix based OS expect the BIOS clock to have -the UTC time. +When creating a virtual machine (VM), setting the proper Operating System(OS) +allows {pve} to optimize some low level parameters. For instance Windows OS +expect the BIOS clock to use the local time, while Unix based OS expect the +BIOS clock to have the UTC time. +[[qm_system_settings]] +System Settings +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +On VM creation you can change the type some basic system components of the new +VM. You can specify which xref:qm_display[display type] you want to use. +[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-create-vm-system.png"] +Additionally, the xref:qm_hard_disk[SCSI controller] can be changed. +If you plan to install the QEMU Guest Agent, or if your selected ISO image +already ships and installs it automatically, you may want to tick the 'Qemu +Agent' box, which lets {pve} know that it can use its features to show some +more information, and complete some actions (for example, shutdown or +snapshots) more intelligently. + +{pve} allows to boot VMs with different firmware and machine types, namely +xref:qm_bios_and_uefi[SeaBIOS and OVMF]. In most cases you want to switch from +the default SeabBIOS to OVMF only if you plan to use +xref:qm_pci_passthrough[PCIe pass through]. A VMs 'Machine Type' defines the +hardware layout of the VM's virtual motherboard. You can choose between the +default https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_440FX[Intel 440FX] or the +https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/31918/intel-82q35-graphics-and-memory-controller.html[Q35] +chipset, which also provides a virtual PCIe bus, and thus may be desired if +one want's to pass through PCIe hardware. [[qm_hard_disk]] Hard Disk