Here is a handy guide to help you change the VMID in Proxmox. Our Proxmox Support team is here to lend a hand with your queries and issues.

How to change VMID in Proxmox

If you are looking for a way to change the Virtual machine ID or VMIDs in Proxmox, you are in luck. Our experts have put together this step-by-step guide to help you out.

Virtual Machine ID in Proxmox is a unique id assigned to each virtual machine in a Proxmox cluster. It is used to manage virtual machines and their resources. Furthermore, it is used to perform actions like starting, stopping, or cloning virtual machines.

Today, we are going to take a look at how we can change the VMID in Proxmox:

1. First, we have to take a backup of the virtual machine and its configuration.
2. Next, run the command below to access information about the logical volumes:

   lvs -a
3. Now, from the output from the above step, select the VMID that we want to change.
4. Then, shut down the VM.
5. After that, run the following command to update the name of the volumes:

   lvrename data/current_vmid new_vmid

   Remember to replace current_vmid and new_vmid with the current VMID and the new VMID we want to change it to respectively.
6. Next, we have to update the ID in the VMs configuration file as seen below:

   sed -i "s/ current_vmid/new_vmid/g" /etc/pve/bob-server/ current_vmid.conf
7. Then, we will rename the VM configuration file as seen here:

   mv /etc/pve/bob-server/ current_vmid.conf /etc/pve/bob-server/new_vmid .conf
8. Finally, it is time to start the VM again.

Furthermore, our experts would like to point out that we have to replace the paths with the actual path of the virtual machine before running the commands.

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Conclusion

To sum up, our Support Techs demonstrated how to change the VMID in Proxmox.