Operations over virtual machines

All operations performed in VMmanager can be divided into main and additional. Main operations are called from the VM context menu, additional operations are called on the VM page.

Main operations

The main operations are available in Virtual machines → Menu or in Virtual machines → open a virtual machine page → Menu:

• Start/Stop — start/stop a virtual machine; 

  If the virtual machine has the status Stopped by the administrator and cannot be started, contact your platform administrator.
• Restart — restart a virtual machine;

  Before a standard shutdown or restart of the VM, the platform tries to terminate running processes in the OS for 60 seconds. 

  You can perform a forced shutdown or restart of the VM. In this case, the platform will not wait for the running processes to complete. Forced shutdown and restart may result in loss of unsaved data.

  To perform a forced shutdown or restart, start the operation and enable the Perform a quick forced shutdown of the VM (Perform a quick forced restart of the VM) option.

• Suspend — suspend the VM work. In this state the VM remains in RAM, but does not consume CPU resources. Any I/O operations for disks and network are blocked on such a VM;
• Resume — exit the VM from the suspended state;
• Reinstall — install a new operating system on your virtual machine:
  1. Select an Operating system.
  2. Select Applications and scripts to be launched upon operating system installation. Scripts are to prepare virtual machines for operation. E.g. you can use them to install any software or set up configuration files. Read more in Scripts.
  3. Specify the VM password or click on Generate for an automatically generated password.
  4. To receive an email with the VM access settings, enable the Send email with password option.
• Recovery mode — start/stop the recovery mode;
• Mount ISO image — mount your own ISO image to the VM. This item may be missing if the administrator has not enabled this option;
• VNC — connect to the virtual machine desktop via VNC;
• SPICE — connect to the virtual machine desktop via SPICE. This item may be missing if the administrator has not enabled this option;
• Change password — create a new root password for the virtual machine;

  If a non-standard administrator name is used on a Windows VM, it will be changed to the standard one when the password is changed:

  • for Windows Server — to Administrator;
  • for Windows — to admin.
• Create a snapshot — create a snapshot of virtual machine. Read more in Snapshots of virtual machines. This item may be missing if the administrator has not enabled this option;
• Run script — select a script that will be started on the virtual machine via the SSH protocol;
• Notes — add notes to a virtual machine.

Additional operations

The additional operations are available in Virtual machines → open a virtual machine page.

Information tab

The tab contains the current system status of the virtual machine:

• Network speed — the speed of incoming and outgoing traffic in Mbit/s;
• vCPU — number of processors in percent;
• RAM in MB;
• Storage in MB.

Virtual disks tab

For the available functions, see the Managing VM disks article.

Backups tab

For the available functions, see the Backups article.

IP addresses tab

The tab contains the IPs assigned to your virtual machine.

You can choose the type for adding an IPv4 address to a VM. The file to which the network configuration will be written depends on the selected type:

Network settings tab

The tab contains the settings of the network interfaces of the VM:

• Name;
• IP address;
• MAC address.

Statistics tab

The tab contains the information about the resources consumed by the virtual machine. Here you can specify the period and the type of the resource:

• CPU load;
• RAM consumed;
• Storage consumed;
• Input-output operations (IOPS);
• Incoming traffic speed;
• Outgoing traffic speed.

History tab

The tab contains a log of virtual machine operations launched from VMmanager.

Tasks tab

The tab contains active operations running on the VM. For example, rebooting, installing the OS, etc.