Recent content by Valerio Pachera

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    [SOLVED] Feature request: add a note field

    Dman! It was in front of my eyes! I was struggling looking for a small field in the "option" sub-menu when there was that big squared field in the summary area. Thank you!
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    [SOLVED] Feature request: add a note field

    Hi all, I think it could be useful to have a simple filed in Proxmox ui were to add simple notes about the guest. A note could be: "This guest has backup disabled because it's content doesn't change" or "This template has an account names john". and so on. I'm wondering a bit about roles but...
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    [SOLVED] run mdadm --zero-superblock before removing guest vdi

    Hi, this is a corner case. I have a proxmox 5 installation using lvm-thin on top of a raid 1 software raid (mdadm). One of my guests was OpenMediaValut (a nas sitribution) that I was testing. The guest has 3 vdi, two of them were used to build a raid 1 volume (inside the guest). I was not using...
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    [SOLVED] Upgrade from 5.2-1 to 5.3-1

    Hi all, I wish to upgrade my proxmox host. My last upgrade was more than a year ago. Shall I be aware of something before upgrading? Thank you.
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    [SOLVED] cloud-init package host side

    Hi all, from what I understand cloud-init is used to initialize a guest. Do we need to have cloud-init package installed also on the host? Right now I'm running an old proxmox version: 5.2-1 and when I restart the host I get lot's of these errors: Mar 28 12:49:36 pve-01 cloud-init[1437]...
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    [SOLVED] Snapshot from command line / shell

    Hi all, is there a way to snapshot a vm by a command like pvesnapshot? Thank you.
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    Help with cluster configuration

    I think the only way is to follow the steps of chapter 'Separate A Node Without Reinstalling'. systemctl stop pve-cluster systemctl stop corosync pmxcfs -l rm /etc/pve/corosync.conf rm /etc/corosync/* killall pmxcfs rm /var/lib/corosync/* And create the cluster from scratch with the right...
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    Help with cluster configuration

    Hi udo, I changed /etc/corosync/corosync.conf but the file /etc/pve/corosync.conf has 440 permission so I can't edit it (and still contains the wrong ip). Am I allowed to add write permission? Are you sure I can change corosync settings without rebooting the server? Shall I increase...
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    Help with cluster configuration

    @udo You are right! Nontheless I found out that the ip address set in /etc/hosts was not matching the current server ip. Note: the first server has been installed and configured by a third person and is already running some guests. 1) So, because I want to use a dedicated NIC, I have to specify...
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    Help with cluster configuration

    Hi, I'm configuring my first cluster following the documentation. I have a dedicated nic for corosync on 192.168.9.0/24 network. On the first node (192.168.9.106) I run 'pvecm create pve-cluster-01' and no errors were reported. On the second node I run pvecm add 192.168.9.106 --ring0_addr...