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Backup stalls for me to a local second hard disk if the resulting tar.dat image gets over 20GB, lots of free space for the backup available. I had this problem on proxmox 1.9 and had to set size to 2048. Even with size set to 3072 in vzdump.conf some VM backups stall after an hour or so, smaller...

Thanks for the tip that worked, maybe add it to the DRBD Wiki page? It seems to take a lot longer then say doing an offline migration of the same VM to a different node in the cluster. Not sure where the bottle neck is.

Hi do you move an existing VM that uses the /var/lib/vz local storage for it's disk image, to using DRBD for storage? The DRBD doesn't have a mountable file system like say NFS does so I can't do a simple copy. I am stuck.

It might pay and check the time stamp and size of the the /var/lib/vz/images/210/vm-210-disk-1.raw in the ssh console, just to make sure it isn't stuck.

I did something really silly. I did a fresh install of 2.1 on a machine and made it the master node on a cluster, then I went to add a second node that had a bunch of VM's already on it, and it wouldn't let me add it with existing VM's, so I thought that can't be right, the master/first node is...

Is it possible to run a Proxmox cluster with a 2.1 master and either 1.9 nodes? I have made sure that the VM id's on the master don't conflict with the nodes VM id's. The reason I want to do this is so I can migrate the VM's (all kvm) from the 1.9 node to the 2.1 master, so I can upgrade the...

Neither the proxmox 2.0 or 2.1 installer CD will format a 1.5TB drive I have that has FreeBSD already on it. It just says failed to format hard disk /dev/sda. The proxmox 1.7 installer formats it fine. Once the FreeBSD formatted drive was reformatted by the proxmox 1.7 installer, the proxmox...

Which software raid are you using, just the built in kernel version managed with mdadm or something else?

I am looking at setting up a Proxmox 2.0 server at a Disaster Recovery site several kilometres away from the main site. The link between the two sites will be modest, about 10Mbps, so that rules out a fast common storage setup. Can a useful cluster still be created over this kind of link? If...

When the Proxmox installer has finished and is asking to reboot, is there a way to escape to a shell and make some modifications to the newly installed system before the reboot?

I just had an interesting surprise. The 2.6.32 kernel on the Promox 1.7 installer now detects the internal drive on the normal 2010 model Mac Mini, someone must have back ported the MCP89 drive fix. It doesn't detect the on board ethernet, but hey it's a start. To get it to install I had to...

Hi Tom, I did as you suggested and it worked fine, one slight glitch. When I view the list of Virtual Machines in the Web GUI, two of the three VM's them have 0KB used in the disk column, one of them reports 80GB used as all three should be doing. Any idea what might be causing that? Is there a...

Ubuntu 10.10 server runs fine on Mac hardware, does need a couple of boot options passed to the kernel "nomodeset" and "reboot=pci".

The MacOS X EULA forbids running it as a VM on non Apple hardware. As the Promox installer .iso has an old kernel with a buggy MCP89 driver, it won't boot on the current range of Mac hardware, so you are stuck. You can run Parallels bare metal hypervisor on a Mac to run MacOS X as a VM along...

I have a Proxmox server running a few Linux based virtual machines using KVM only. These machines use an NFS server for their hard disk storage. The NFS server did a kernel panic earlier today and needs to be taken offline for further investigation. What's the procedure for moving a virtual...

That's fair enough. Can you suggest a method where I can boot from a 2.6.35 kernel say off a thumbdrive or some minimal CD and manually install proxmox then update the proxmox kernel that's installed to 2.6.35 and reboot? My problem is the drive controller chip that handles the internal drives...

Is there any chance of getting a bootable iso image with this 2.6.35 kernel so I can install it? Or if someone can tell me a proceedure how I can get it onto the internal drive on the Mac Mini server I am testing Proxmox on? The current Mac Mini server won't boot a kernel prior to 2.6.35 so I...

That would suit my test setup with the Mac Mini Server perfectly.

You still need the nomodeset parameter with Ubuntu Maverick, as far as I know it's the only distribution that has a 2.6.35 or greater kernel. Ubuntu Server is nice because it shares the common Debian ancestry with Proxmox. Proxmox won't install cleanly from packages on Ubuntu as there is a...

The performance of the Mac Mini Server was fine with Proxmox, I didn't try the raid just a single drive. The new Mac Mini shape suits me as you can get two side by side into a 1RU space. 8GB RAM max limits the number of VM's you can run, seeing all my VM's have no GUI, I can run quite a few on...