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    Move Disk Windows Guests wont boot

    Hello. I used the "Move disk" utility in the GUI today to move some Hard Disks to different local storage (e.g., from "local" to "localsdc" and I'm having trouble booting the VMs afterwards. On one Windows 7 guest I'm getting this error from Windows Boot Manager: Status: 0xc000000f Info...
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    Trouble Starting VM

    Good morning, I'm running promox 4.0-480d8559d0 This morning I had a KVM that wouldn't respond. After looking into it, I found that the space on my local storage was maxed out (1.6TB of 1.6TB). The VMs with Hard Disks on local were all reporting "io-error" in the web gui. I moved some of...
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    Help calculating vzdump.conf size: value

    Good morning! I need some help calculating the max "size:" value I can assign in vzdump.conf to get my backups working again. I know this could be resolved with an upgrade but things have been running so well that I'm too chicken to risk it. I'm having a problem with snapshot backups of a...
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    EXT3-fs I/O error on dm-4

    Hi guys! I'm getting some I/O errors in my syslog on device "dm-4" and I'm not sure if it's symptomatic of a bad disk or if I've just got a stale backup or what. After reading through some related forum posts here are some outputs that might be helpful (I highlighted anything related to dm-4...
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    Freeing up backup space

    Hello everybody, I am trying to free up space on my backup storage. I have a bunch of *.tar.dat files and *.tmp folders in the backup destination. There are also many tar.lzo files. I'm thinking I can delete the .tar.dat files and the .tmp folders. Looking at the dates and VMID's on them...
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    pve-root nearly full

    Good morning,I'm having some difficulty with my ProxMox 2.1 installation. I seem to be running out of space on my /pve-root. I became aware of the issue because of failed backups. Here is the output of df -h:root@proxvs1:/# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on...
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    vzdump.conf tweaking - backups failing

    Hello, I'm having some trouble with backups hanging. The backups were working brilliantly until a few weeks ago. I've been pouring over forum posts trying to figure out what to do to get things working again but I can't seem to figure it out. Once I do I'd like to put a post together like I did...
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    Understanding RAM Assignment

    Hello and Happy New Year to you all. I'm using ProxMoxVE 2.1 and I'm looking at upgrading physical RAM. I have calculated the amount of RAM assigned to my VM's (all KVM) but I'm having difficulty determining how much RAM is allotted to the host. Is this something that occurs dynamically or is...
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    Time

    Hello there, First of all - ProxMox rules!!! I'm a huge proponent. I have ProxMox 2.1-1/f9b0f63a installed on two different physical servers. My production server is a Dell PowerEdge R520 and my test environment is a Dell PowerEdge T110II. I have a fully virtualized environment with a...
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    Samba Questions

    Hey there, I'm setting up a new ProxMox host and want to serve a samba share from local storage. Then I would like to access that share from Windows VM's on the host. I guess my first question would be, is this inadvisable from either a security or any other perspective? Based purely on gut...
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    Migrating VirtualBox .vdi to ProxMox VE

    Hey there. I hope this post will help someone. It took me a while to make it happen but when I finally put the steps together it was a piece of cake! Hope you have the same results. I transferred a Windows 2008 R2 VirtualBox VM on a Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit host to a Proxmox VE 1.9...