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    VirtIO = task xxx blocked for more than 120 seconds.

    Those are old mitigation tips when we did not know the real cause of the problem, but they do not hurt, especially the ZFS settings, they are very useful. The most important 3 steps to solve this almost perfectly are: 1. Using VirtIO-SCSI-Single disk controller for your VM disks 2. Enabling...
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    Common KVM processor

    This is not entirely true. As newer processors are fully compatible with older models, you can easily and safely migrate guests using an older CPU model set in KVM. For example if you have Ivy Bridge, Haswell and Skylake servers, you should set your KVM guests to the lowest common denominator...
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    NUMA question

    So if I have a NUMA server with 2 sockets, and I want a VM to run on (and use the memory of) a single socket (NUMA node) only, then I should disable the NUMA option and the hypervisor will make sure it will stay on one NUMA node? The wiki says the exact opposite...
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    Can't restore or create LXC container on new PVE7 node

    pveversion # pveversion -v proxmox-ve: 7.0-2 (running kernel: 5.11.22-7-pve) pve-manager: 7.0-14+1 (running version: 7.0-14+1/08975a4c) pve-kernel-helper: 7.1-4 pve-kernel-5.11: 7.0-10 pve-kernel-5.11.22-7-pve: 5.11.22-12 pve-kernel-5.11.22-4-pve: 5.11.22-9 ceph-fuse: 15.2.14-pve1 corosync...
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    Can't restore or create LXC container on new PVE7 node

    Upon upgrading (reinstalling one-by-one) our cluster to PVE 7.0, I ran into the following problem: restoring an LXC container shows an error. recovering backed-up configuration from 'NFS:backup/vzdump-lxc-321-2021_11_12-04_38_58.tar.lzo' restoring...
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    Incorrect NVMe SSD wearout displayed by Proxmox 6

    I have recently installed four NVMe SSDs in a Proxmox 6 server as a RAIDZ array, only to discover that according to the web interface two of the drives exhibit huge wearout only after a few weeks of use: Since these are among the highest endurance consumer SSDs with 1665 TBW warranty for a...
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    Guest VM CPU spike during backup

    This looks related to CPU freeze issue that many of us are experiencing when backing up or restoring VMs, that is unresolved for many years: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/kvm-guests-freeze-hung-tasks-during-backup-restore-migrate.34362 Here is my newly reopened bugreport...
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    KVM guests freeze (hung tasks) during backup/restore/migrate

    Good point @mmenaz ! Unfortunately none of the new features solved this problem completely, also his observation about this being a load issue is superficial in light of the facts. I have reopened the bugreport and commented our latest experience. I encourage everyone to do the same.
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    KVM guests freeze (hung tasks) during backup/restore/migrate

    Read my previous posts... this is a several years old bug in the kernel scheduler or KVM (or both), and nobody cares about solving it. Proxmox devs killed my bugreport, KVM devs do not even acknowledge the bugreport. What happens is that during heavy IO load on the host (disk or network), KVM...
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    KVM guests freeze (hung tasks) during backup/restore/migrate

    This looks exactly like the problem that I (and many others) reported for years in this thread and others. The problem is most likely a Linux kernel / KVM issue. What seems to happen is when local disks are busy due to a restore operation, probably the dirty page IO of the host system is...
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    PVE 5.4 - Nodes suddenly reboot - no entries in logs

    Do you boot from ZFS on your server that reboots without any warning? Also, what is your software+hardware configuration? (processor, memory, disks, filesystem, swap, etc.)
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    Problems installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in KVM

    I have tried to install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Server in a KVM machine on a recently updated Proxmox 5.4 host, but after entering the IPv4 address manually, and hitting "Save" the installer instantly restarts. Tried different hardware configurations (E1000 vs. VirtIO-net, disconnecting the adapter...
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    CephFS: How to create with different size?

    When creating a regular (RBD) Ceph pool, there are options in both the GUI and in pveceph to determine the size (replication count) and the min. size (online replicas for read) of the pool. However, when creating a CephFS pool, neither the GUI, not pveceph provides an option to create one with a...
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    Proxmox API questions about user data

    Let's say my username is "pveuser@pve". If I query ACCESS/USERS, I get all the user data I'm allowed to see, among it my own, but ACCESS/USERS/PVEUSER@PVE gives a 403 Forbidden error. Problem is I can't GET (or POST) ACCESS/USERS/PVEUSER@PVE to read (or write) my own data, unless I have the...
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    KVM guests freeze (hung tasks) during backup/restore/migrate

    Hi Morbious, can you please post some more info? - host HW configuration (CPU and memory type and amount, how many NVMe disks) - host SW configuration (kernel versions on both machines, storage type and filesystem used), how many VMs - VM configs of the VMs you get errors on (cpu number, memory...

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