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    Q: Win10Pro VM Guest install / "Bios" Activation key?

    Footnote, with your keywords and a bit of google digging, I located this thread, https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03080.html and I think I start to see why this is an exercise in "not quite futility, but only for the enthusiast' ie, much simpler to just purchase a...
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    Q: Win10Pro VM Guest install / "Bios" Activation key?

    Thanks for the reply. If you can point me to any hints on how to do the SLIC Table pass through from physical to virtual, that would be great. I am slightly confused how such a process can be time intensive (a few config stanzas for pass through in the KVM VM Config file most likely? But maybe...
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    Q: Win10Pro VM Guest install / "Bios" Activation key?

    Hi, a 'fun' question I wonder if anyone has experience with. I'm setting up a small 'lenovo mid-level workstation' as a small on-prem server for a client. They need 2 x small VMs, one will be a linux ClearOS "NAS Fileserver" and the second will be Win10Pro for running Sage Simply Accounting...
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    Query re: "normal" Swap use behaviour in Proxmox / Latest

    Thanks very much for this feedback. Sounds like - things are managing themselves smoothly / and this is default-expected behaviour / not of concern. So that is good news. Many thanks, Tim
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    Query re: "normal" Swap use behaviour in Proxmox / Latest

    Hi, I've got a Proxmox host running (OVH "template deployed stock proxmox latest" (currently is displaying in webUI, Virtual Environment 5.2-7) - it has 8 HT Xeon cores / 32gb ram / pair of 2x2Tb Sata drives in SWRaid1. Pretty typical OVH box. I have about a dozen LXC based VMs running, and...
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    LXC VMs / Packet loss weirdness

    Oh what fun, I was digging into this some more, and figured I should post my reply here, in case I will make the same mistake in a year or so after losing my brain again / or possibly someone else in similar boat will find the hint and take a look. It appears that restore the 5 x VMs running...
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    LXC VMs / Packet loss weirdness

    I'm running a 'current latest' proxmox (OVH Server stock install) 5.2-7 which has about 10 x LXC VMs on the physical host. Initially it was setup with ~5 VMs and then I added 6 more roughly a week ago. 5 of the 6 new VMs were deployed using a template/copy made from a slightly older proxmox5...
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    Howto migrate from xen project?

    Ah, yes! I must admit I haven't done a project with Xenserver for a few years now (more than a few, really) so my brain happily has forgotten about the paravirtual VMs there. You are correct, this makes sense that there are problems. I did quick google, and found a few things, this one...
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    Optimizing proxmox

    Sounds good / clear. I have tried ZFS a few times in the past 5 years, and in all cases for my use cases I am much happier with linux software raid config. I do realize different people have different use cases! Maybe you need more ram, CPU, and possibly other config tuning, in order to...
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    3-node HA cluster - what happens if 2 nodes fail?

    For what it is worth, you may wish to reconsider your design philosophy slightly? I looked at a similar project build ~1.5 years ago and my general feeling was that -- Ceph was possible with a 'modest size' cluster (ie, 3-5 nodes of proxmox with ceph 'hyperconverged storage pool') -- but the...
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    Recover files from a 2008 server VM

    Can you temporarily boot your win2008 VM using say "Linux SysRescue LiveCD Iso" as your boot media. Then mount the windows VM Disk using <included NTFS mount tool of your choice on the live CD> From there you now have a stable environment, ie, SSH / console of the solid booted liveCD access to...
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    Optimizing proxmox

    Devils advocate question, why are you choosing to use ZFS at all in your proxmox install/config ? Is there specific requirement that drives this? My experience would suggest the simpler thing to do - is avoid ZFS. Just 2 cents sort of question/comment. Thanks, Tim
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox ZFS - Unusable

    Hi Darren, not to be devil advocate entirely, but, is there a specific need/requirement for you to use ZFS in your proxmox deployment? (ie, as opposed to .. say, vanilla setup with HW Raid disks and standard local storage?) Tim
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox and ram /swap usage

    For what it is worth, my general feeling for ZFS and proxmox, is that - you should have a really good reason to use ZFS, otherwise I don't think it would be my recommended pick for "simple,easy,works well". But possibly there is an "SOP" somewhere on how to tweak-tune proxmox so that ZFS...
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    Howto migrate from xen project?

    Hi, there are various documents on 'migrating to proxmox' and conceptually it is all the same as 'migration from physical or VM-alternate-platform to proxmox'. - if windows VM guest, make sure to install IDE reg support before doing migration - it may be beneficial to remove...
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    SME server disc was not found in any of your cdrom drivers

    Hi, can you give a bit more detail about (precisely?) -- what ISO you are using to install (ie, SME server iso named, ...... / obtained from ... where?) -- what config you are using for the VM you are trying to install ? I've installed SME / and more recently "ClearOS" (ie, the successor to SME...
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    Need help troubleshooting Proxmox failing to restart - syslog included

    Hi, what do you see on the console of the proxmox host when you do the reboot? Are you able / have you tried to 'tweak' the 'default' boot stanza being passed to the kernel? (ie, don't let it auto-boot with default!) My test-dev proxmox box was giving me some pain recently after a reboot, with...
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    Single server to clustered environment upgrade?

    Hi, Just a small added vote of confidence / and a few comments ... (A) It is basically trivial process, if you start with one node in production, run it standalone for a period of time (Months,etc) and then in future, wish to add more nodes / create a multi-node cluster. Simply clean-install...
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    e1000e NIC 100 vs 1000 connection on Prox5.Latest

    Hi, I am curious if this sounds vaguely familiar to anyone else. I recall I had an issue with e1000 driver a few years ago but I can't recall seeing an issue like this for quite a while. I've got a machine at a client SMB office, running proxmox with a couple of VMs. It is a 'entry level'...
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    Proxmox major upgrade 2.1-->4.4

    Hi, sounds to me like the old proxmox install / disk has VGs present which block automated new-clean install. So, either use a different disk, or, destroy the content of that disk first (ie, clobber disk slices) so it is empty before trying the new automated install. I'm not clear if this...