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    API: Assign IP while creating a VM

    Hi, Is there any way to assign a network configuration including IP address while creating a VM through API? Best regards, Stanislav
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    Accidental removal of a VM or virtual HDD

    Hello all, I would like to draw more attention on this usability issue: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=360 Please have a look and share your opinion on this. I would like to know if other users also struggle with themselves not to remove something accidentally or this is just my...
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    Windows XP and 2003 + virtio hangs on boot since the latest upgrade.

    Hello, I've got to the unusual issue. If my VM with Windows XP or 2003 installed has two virtio drives with IDs 0 and 1, i.e. virtio0 and virtio1, then it hangs on boot, on Windows XP/2003 boot logo. In other cases it boots well, for example: virtio0, virtio1 - hangs virtio0, virtio2 - boots...
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    Why do you need HA?

    Hello all, I wonder why I can see a lot of questions related to HA on this forum. I my experience: 1) hardware fails rarely 2) HA has to be configured properly and tested carefully 3) HA need to be tested from time to time to be sure it works 4) if you have too many machines in HA mode you can...
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    KVM on top of DRBD and out of sync: long term investigation results

    Hello, Long time ago after when I found a guide how to configure Proxmox two node cluster + DRBD I was really happy. We only needed to nodes for online migration and quick recovery after hardware failure. I saw that as a solution that could be widely used. And it worked for a while. When I...
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    VM drive cache mode and performance

    Hello everybody, Could anybody try to explain why cache=directsync and cache=none (which is write-back with host cache disabled) give completely same results? Shouldn't it be better on writing with cache=none? ------------------ Hardware: - Dell PE 710 - PERC H700 Integrated - RAID 0+1 -...
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    [SOLVED] Boot order questions

    1) Does boot order work through the whole cluster on one host only? 2) What is the default index for boot order? For example, I have set "10" for DHCP server but when Proxmox host starts all the machines start almost at the same time.
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    Virtual machines don't start if no qourum

    Three Proxmox VE 2.2 servers in a cluster. If I start first server and wait some time it starts but no VMs started. As I understood from https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332 this is a feature and not a bug. But VMs of that first server still don't start when I start the rest of...
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    Stability VS Features

    Dear Proxmox Team, Why do we love Debian? Why do we love Ubuntu Server? It is simple: we can do "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" everyday without any impact. We can even do it automatically, no, I do not recommend to do it and I just would like to point that it is possible...
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    [CLARIFIED] Get rid of tar backup? Why?

    Hello, I love Proxmox VE mostly because it has always followed KISS principle, intentionally or not. It has been always, I would say, "perfect set of tools". Raw disk images VS proprietary VMDK (helped me a many times when I needed to migrate a drive somewhere, for example, to physical...
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    Windows NT 4.0 sp6 on Proxmox VE 2.0 and mouse synchronization

    [SOLVED] Windows NT 4.0 sp6 on Proxmox VE 2.0 and mouse synchronization Hello everybody, In order to upgrade some old hardware we have decided to move our "Windows NT 4.0" with very old software to the Proxmox VE. I've managed to configure Video and Network but there is one problem still...
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    KVM 0.15.0 crashes with USB

    pve-qemu-kvm_0.15.0-2_amd64.deb crashes at the same time as I attach usb device to it pve-qemu-kvm_0.15.0-1_amd64.deb (previous version) mostly works well but I've got one problem (hopefully I found work aroud) Let's go deeper about 0.15.0-1 version problem. We have: - Windows XP in KVM -...
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    What the differences between Debian kernel and pve kernel?

    What the differences between Debian kernel and pve kernel? Just drivers or something else? Can I use, for example, Archlinux for running PVE?
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    Minor feature: virtual machines should wait DRBD

    Proxmox 1.6 Two hosts LVM on DRBD Guest's drives on that LVM It would be nice if virtual machines wait drbd on host server boot. If they don't you should start them manually after drbd is accessible.
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    qmrestore: small bug

    qmrestore doesn't catch an error during restore when source "storage" is disalbed: $ qmrestore /mnt/pve/backup-stop/vzdump-qemu-103-2010_09_18-04_27_47.tgz 118 INFO: restore QemuServer backup '/mnt/pve/backup-stop/vzdump-qemu-103-2010_09_18-04_27_47.tgz' using ID 118 INFO: extracting...
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    vzdump didn't show an error when vztar is terminalted

    I had to kill vztar because it hung. vzdump said "everything" is OK at the end of backup operation. Aug 24 02:00:08 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 101 (qemu) Aug 24 02:00:09 INFO: running Aug 24 02:00:09 INFO: status = running Aug 24 02:00:10 INFO: backup mode: snapshot Aug 24 02:00:10 INFO...
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    Problems with Windows live-migration using KVM

    Hello everybody, We have two servers virt1 and virt2. 1 Windows XP works correctly on both. 2. Live migration Windows XP from virt2 to virt1 always goes well. 3. Live migration Windows XP from virt1 to virt2 usualy hang or reboot machine. It seems as memory corruption. BSOD message: STOP...
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    Is it safe to use wfc-timeout in DRBD configuration?

    Hi guys, I read the Proxmox wiki page related to DRBD configuration and found next option there: "wfc-timeout 15". It seems very dangerous to use this option in production. I'll try to explain by example. 1. We have two running machines with DRBD (machine1 and machine2). 2. There are some...
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    DRBD + Directory Storage + LiveMigration - is it possible?

    Hello everybody, Wiki describes usage DRBD with LVM Storage type. Is it possible to use Directory type in with DRBD? If yes is it possible to use live migration with it? Have a good time, Stas
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    Bug tracker

    Hello Team, Is there bugtracker for the Proxmox VE? Bugtracker + public VCS is more useful to track project and bugs than forum. I thinki It could invite more users and developers. Stas

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