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    xz Utils backdoor

    Many of the LXC templates are in the xz format for PVE 6.x and PVE 7.x whilst the newer ones use .zst https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about-the-xz-utils-backdoor-that-almost-infected-the-world/ The above warns of xz Utils v5.6.0 and v5.6.1 being vulnerable to a backdoor.
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    [SOLVED] No space left on device on apt-get update

    Which device and how to increase space? Very cryptic indeed. PVE 6.4-15 pve-manager/6.4-15/af7986e6 (running kernel: 5.4.203-1-pve) # apt-get update Hit:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster InRelease Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease [56.6 kB] Err:2...
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    [SOLVED] lxc-attach failure

    PVE 6.4-15 DAB squeeze based template compilation worked till a week ago. Now fails at: dab task mysql --password random Error: install: mysql-server-5.1 install: mysql-common command 'lxc-attach -n 9e74fc3a-76f2-4866-adf1-221c03c0e061 --rcfile...
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    pve-container update 7.2

    Today's update: # apt-get update Hit:1 http://security.debian.org bullseye-security InRelease Hit:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease Hit:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bullseye InRelease Reading package...
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    pct push when LXC is offline

    pct push <VMID> pct pull <VMID> The above can be used on the host only when the LXC container is started and running with say pct start 101. When an LXC has been created, pct set hostscript ... can be used to execute a script on the LXC guest when it is started or when it is explicitly stopped...
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    pct exec direct into lxc guest

    When a container is created, we need to populate the VMID and the NODE name into the LXC guest. Tried the following in vain: system("pct exec $vmid -- echo $vmid $node > /root/VMID-NODE"); inside the post-start section of the hookscript. There was a "-c" parameter referred to in this post for...
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    [SOLVED] Ancient Debian 6 LXC templates need new ssh-keygen

    Attempted building a Debian 6 (Squeeze) template and could not SFTP into it as the old keys were not loading. Solved it on the LXC console with: ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -N "" <<< $'\ny' >/dev/null 2>&1 ssh-keygen -q -t dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -N "" <<< $'\ny'...
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    Get VMID from inside LXC Guest

    Getting the VMID inside a Debian Guest: In a Debian OpenVZ container we could use: VMID=`awk '{print $1}' /proc/vz/veinfo` What is the equivalent for a Debian LXC container?
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    PVE 6.4-15 has updates from upstream debian still

    The following packages will be upgraded: libhttp-daemon-perl libsndfile1 linux-libc-dev tzdata Pleasantly surprised today that an EOL distribution like PVE 6.4 is still getting debian upstream updates on apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade still.
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    Images and ISOs links - Oracle Linux Server on KVM / PVE-6.4 fails yum update

    Linux Cheat Sheet - PDF 1 page, 128 KB Linux history Command - HOWTO | Cache - 7 pages, 901KB, Oracle sqlplus SET commands | sqlplus notes | Oracle Enterprise ISOs | Oracle Unofficial Mirrors Linux Virtualisation Images Just tested out Oracle Linux Server 64 bit v5.11 and inspite of changing...
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    Mount local iso to install PVE 7.x

    Lenovo SR650 - PVE 7.x install from XClarity Controller as local ISO
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    Mounting LXC raw images

    One thread stated that LXC containers do not have a mounted state. Here is how we can mount a stopped LXC container (CTID = 102 here): # pct mount 102 mounted CT 102 in '/var/lib/lxc/102/rootfs' # ls -al /var/lib/lxc/102/rootfs total 96 drwxr-xr-x 21 100000 100000 4096 Sep 19 23:14 ...
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    Is there a similar tool like OpenVZ's pvebash for LXC to enter non booting containers?

    /usr/bin/pvebash PVE page has been created to manage non booting OpenVZ containers and another similar script is Proxbash Is there a similar script for LXC containers?
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    New install of PVE 7.2-1 issues

    After a complete install of 7.2-1 from a USB drive and apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade on a new 610 mainboard and 12th gen i3 CPU 12100 and a normal HDD of 2TB using the pve-no-subscription repo, the update process generated a lot of ATA errors but the install proceeded normally. At each...
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    PVE 7.2-3 after full update does not allow install of DAB - Fix

    Installed PVE 72.-1 from the ISO in July and now updated it to PVE 7.2-3 (did not use the PVE 7.2-7 in the pvetest repo). Tried to install dab in vain. Did the following to install dab with all it's dependencies and then it worked fine: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade # The last two are for...
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    Wiki Purge today

    A clean up of the PVE Wiki was done today. Some pages pertaining to the PVE v3.4 / OpenVZ too have been deleted now that by May 16th PVE 3.x will be EOL. Here is a list of pages deleted and not extracted along with some important ones extracted from the last archival at http://archive.org/web...
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    Intel security flaw affects cloud

    Which if any of the PVE versions are affected by this Intel CPU kernel flaw?
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    Devuan aka Debian8 on SysVInit

    Devuan v1.0.0 has been released. It sports the old SysVInit system in place of systemd. Is Proxmox going to transfer to Devuan/SysV in the place of Debian/systemd? NewZealand and Amsterdam companies currently provide Enterprise support for Devuan.
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    Alpine Linux OpenVZ Template

    I have made an Alpine Linux OpenVZ Template that still needs networking to be manually started after bootup. http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Alpine_Linux_Minimal http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/OpenVZ_Console#Alpine_Linux Feedback will be useful.
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    CVE-2016-8655 fix needed

    CVE-2016-8655 Race Condition Error Exploit https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8655 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=84ac7260236a49c79eede91617700174c2c19b0c Has this been patched for PVE 3.x / 4.x ?

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