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    [SOLVED] Yet another LXC ID mapping thread - mapping multiple host IDs to a single container ID?

    I took the easy-cum-hard way and updated the the UID from 998 to 1000 in the container. Some tips if someone else would like to do this (not a script and definitely not recommended!): pct enter xxx # to enter a running container outside of ssh (in case the user has processes etc) usermod -u...
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    [SOLVED] Yet another LXC ID mapping thread - mapping multiple host IDs to a single container ID?

    The problem: I have a CIFS folder mounted on the host. As such I have little control over the permissions and owners of folders within that. However, since this folder is exclusively used for container mountpoints, I use the uid=101000,gid=101000 parameters during mount to give them an...
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    Spin down disk passed through to VM

    Yes - hd-idle/standby seems to work fine in proxmox... as long as the VM the disk is being passthrough'd to is off. Once on it doesn't seem to standby at all, even if the VM guest isn't using it. I suspect QEMU keeps a hold on the disk or something.
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    [SOLVED] 'pvecm qdevice setup' fails

    Have you tried setting up manually? The script doesn't do that much and is pretty self explanatory.
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    [SOLVED] 'pvecm qdevice setup' fails

    That wasn't my own issue, and I'm a bit reluctant to share a patch file since I wouldn't recommend it myself. All the script does is add the bit to the corosync config and restart qdevice on each node. If I need to do this again I'll just do those two steps. Otherwise it's a bit obvious which...
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    [SOLVED] 'pvecm qdevice setup' fails

    I had to build my own version of qnetd for an platform that it hasn't been built by others for, and had to disable tls to get it to build. As such I don't want/need certificates to be used for this and suspect therefore a manual set up would be best. Do we have instructions available for such a...
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    [SOLVED] Migrating to a new server

    I threw caution to the wind and used the following thread to rename the node: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-node-name-change.14327/ Very hacky and the cluster is no more but since it's temporary it'll work for in this case.
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    [SOLVED] Migrating to a new server

    It doesn't I'm afraid: It's exactly the empty node requirement that makes this non trivial. Cluster vs standalone doesn't seem to be relevant. Looks like deleting and restoring the VMs is the best way forward. Do I have to backup the storage too or will that survive a rename?
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    [SOLVED] Migrating to a new server

    Ok I suspect I'm being dim or unclear (or probably both). My current node is called "frodo". I want to build a new node with new hardware, migrate my VMs over and decommission the old node. There will be a period where both nodes will be running as machines are migrated. Eventually I want...
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    [SOLVED] Migrating to a new server

    I naively assumed nodes in a cluster have to have unique names. Is this not the case? The complication here is a) wanting to keep (or reuse) the node name and b) have both old and new nodes up as I migrate the (offline) VMs.
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    [SOLVED] Migrating to a new server

    I am trying to figure out a strategy to move my existing PVE installation to a new server. The new host will have new disks etc, so data will need to be migrated (as opposed to just physically moving the disk). I am also taking this opportunity to install Proxmox fresh. Quite significantly, I...
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    Network stops and starts "randomly"

    One of my Proxmox hosts randomly loses network for 5-6 seconds at what appears to be random points throughout the day. I am usually using VMs via RDP, and they either pause or disconnect. While investigating the issue I've noticed both pings to and from the host also stop, so it seems to be a...
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    Temporary Performance Issues due to network?

    I figured it was a long shot, but always worth documenting these data points. If I see the same hostwide performance again, what's the best way to quantify what's going on? I didn't see anything unusual using top on the host for example.
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    Temporary Performance Issues due to network?

    I usually run a couple of desktops on a Proxmox host running on a Haswell Xeon with 32GB ram. Hardware capabilities aside, the setup has been running well for me. The host is part of a two box cluster (which I use for the datacentre UI and not resilience). For the last three days or so my...
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    Proxmox 5.3, DHCP for vmbr0

    For anyone else who finds this, don't do what I did and replace everything vmbr0 with the above. You'll lose network access. Make sure you keep the bridge lines, so perhaps something like: auto vmbr0 iface vmbr0 inet dhcp bridge_ports eth0 bridge_stp off bridge_fd 0...
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    Thinclient and Remote Desktop Virtualisation Server

    It's worth noting that any kind of GPU passthrough will disable the proxmox SPICE setup. I've gone the other way and set up "bespoke" remoting per VM. That's essentially RDP for Windows (although sometimes VNC for GPU/game streaming) and still tossing up between NoMachine and xRDP for Linux...
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    proxmox api

    As we are now in the future, any sign of this functionality coming soon? ;) I notice that the usage can be found in lvs say, so although I appreciate the guest-agent is the right way to do it, perhaps in the short term for LVM disks it can be picked up directly?
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox prometheus exporter questions

    From https://github.com/prometheus-pve/prometheus-pve-exporter/issues/43, you can use tokens by using a slightly different config: default: user: "..." token_name: "..." token_value: "..."
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox prometheus exporter questions

    @jfmanamtr this was great. Just out of interest, why do you create a token? It doesn't look like the pve exporter supports them? I had to use the user/pass.