An uneducated guess, and one that assumes the 'vma_writer_close: close failed - Host is down' is not what's implied! But, could your live guest backup be failing because you do not have qemu agent installed (VMs) or enabled (PVE guest config)...
Something I forgot: ProxmoxVE9 introduced a new, still in tech-preview-feature which allows converting oci ( aka docker ) container images to lxcs. To be honest I'm not a big fan since this procedure destroys the immutability which is the biggest...
Here's my current thoughts/opinions about running docker/podman in CTs
- It currently works fine (at least in a debian CT)
- It might break on docker (related) or kernel updates
- Breakage is likely to be fixed soon but you'll have to be patient...
Sorry, but I don't see the benefit. Even if it takes a little longer to find a calculator and type in the numbers or do the math in my head, it still takes less than a minute. And if you're creating a large number of virtual machines, wouldn't it...
I haven't come across this kvm warning with PVE as yet (upgrade path PVE7->8->9). But I have encountered it after upgrading a regular Debian 12 desktop to Debian 13. The machine was unsupported and qemu would not even start. The kvm guests...
My only point here is that the term “snapshot” has different meanings, heavily depending on the contextual point-of-view:
PVE VM snapshot
This is the native Proxmox function. It freezes the current status of a VM. This state can be “unfrozen”...
I switched to chrony at some point but I cannot remember if I was using systemd-timesyncd or full ntpd. Either way AIUI `apt install chrony` will warn about removal of a conflicting package. My preference would be for switching time daemon rather...
We are excited to announce the release of Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.1!
This release is based on Debian 13.5 "Trixie" and ships the Linux kernel 7.0 as the new stable default. It includes the latest versions of ZFS 2.4, PostgreSQL 17, SpamAssassin...