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    Unbootable PVE after upgrade

    I upgraded promox 7.4 for 8.4, after upgrde it was stuck at "welcome to grub!", can't type or do anything. I booted in resuce, done chroot and an ran proxmox-boot-tool init /dev/nvme0n1p1 (here my ESP partition / efi partition reside). After that, on reboot, it fails say "No boot= argument...
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    Duplicate Fingerprint error in logs

    Hello, I have some weird error in journalctl logs, looking over internet, there is no information about it. I am not sure what are they, should I be worried or just leave them. Jul 09 19:00:19 server vector[2479]: 2024-07-09T17:00:19.455338Z ERROR source{component_kind="source"...
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    [SOLVED] backup notifcation issue

    Hi, Have simple requirements, after each backup job, we want notification, however, can't get on Gmal email as obviously to deliver mail to gmail / yahoo, need proper mail server. Hence used aws SES smtp mail account but still mails are going through postfix (as per syslog). Here what I did ...
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    VPS Hosting providers - why no zfs ?

    Hi, I have seen that most hosting provider those sell VPS over proxmox use software raid with lvm thin instead of ZFS. On few hosting forums have seen discussion where hosting providers prefers software raid over zfs raid. I want to ask here, providers those are selling vms over proxmox, why...
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    Can't install win10 vm

    Hello Have freshly installed proxmox 8.1, all looks good, can install ubuntu, windows 2019 server but can't install windows 10. Default option just shows blinking curors after windows logo. Changed to machine type to q35, now it loads for a while then stops. Have changed to OS type to windows...
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    Anyone using proxmox with hostbill for location selection

    Hi, This is not a proxmox issue directly but was hoping if someone is using proxmox with hostbill can help. hostbill has great proxmox integration and I can connect app and provision vm just fine. But I can't find way to show multiple PVE servers (separate PVE servers, not in same cluster as...
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    CISF / SMB traffic encryption ?

    Hi, I just configured remote CISF mount, however couldn't see any way to make sure traffic is encrypted to smb share because I am using it over internet. I can do just fine from CLI using : mount.cifs -o seal,user=<username>,pass=<password> //path/to/SMB/Server/backup /PATH/FOLDER As per...
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    qm importdisk always import 10G disk regardless of image size

    I running following commands to create VM from CLI, however qm create 1001 --name AlmaLinux-8.9-x86-64 --cores 2 --memory 1024 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0 qm importdisk 1001 AlmaLinux-8.9-x86_64.qcow2 local It is always creating 10G of VM although image size for qm importdisk...
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    CT with exceptionally high cpu usage- where to look?

    Have two identical servers. 1. One with proxmox 8.x (lets call it CT-A) 2. One with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (And call this Dedi-B) Have a web based app running nginx+php-fpm (mysql is on other server). Now problem is that if I use LXC CT (CT-A) on for that App on proxmox server with same amount...
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    How to troubleshoot metrics server issues

    Hi, I am trying to use proxmox metrics server, I have configured victoriametrics which support Prometheus, Graphite, Influxdb input formats. I tested my server by a telegraf with nfluxdb (v1) output plugin and I can receive data over https with basic authentication from test machine. However, I...
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    Terribly slow mdraid with LVM

    I got few server where have consumer grade SSDs, earlier was using ZFS but apparently apart of good amount of RAM, ZFS also need enterprise SSD with some inbuilt cache / fault protection. So I built next server with mdraid and LVM thin (for snapshot features). But my benchmarks are terribly...
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    VM down because of oom killer - finding actual reason

    Hi, I found that only VM on server is going down randomly. From dmesg, I can find : [Thu Mar 23 02:51:34 2023] Out of memory: Killed process 538560 (kvm) total-vm:125506644kB, anon-rss:113157280kB, file-rss:3988kB, shmem-rss:4kB, UID:0 pgtables:237624kB oom_score_adj:0 [Sun Mar 26 05:09:06...
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    Can't install windows VM - error that windows can't be installed on disk

    I am trying to install windows 10 on proxmox VM. However, after updating virtio drivers, I am receiver error "windows can't be installed on drive 0 partition 1. I was following this : https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_10_guest_best_practices Screenshot : I also tried with other win 2022...
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    Rsync inside VM crashing - zfs

    Hi, I have ZFS based system, there is a ubuntu based VM and I am trying to rsync remote data to this VM. After a while the VM starts eating all RAM, no matter if you have 8GB RAM VM or 96 GB, it eats up all and things start crawling and eventually Rsync crashes. Disk IO wait get very high, I...
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    Never ending CT clone process

    Hi, I am trying to do clone of a CT, I have stopped the original CT as its not allowing me to do clone on running CT saying "can't clone CT without snapshot". So I turned off CT, started cloning and now its been running from long time, The system is running ZFS and CT is on ZFS Output of Clone...
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    A question about zfs compression and disk usage in VMs

    Hi, If we have zstd or lz4 compression enabled on ZFS, what user of VM will see it ? For example, if I have created a virtual machine with 40 GB disk space, since compression is there, on actual node it will occupy lesser space but from inside VM, will it report actual usage or it will be...
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    Proxmox VE console blinking but can't type

    HI, I was configuring a proxmox VE and got locked out of it while playing with firewall. No issue in that however, over IPMI I can't login or type anything on the console. Previously I thought its issue with IPMI but looking carefully, it appears my server is kind of stuck on something and not...
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    [SOLVED] Use of uninitialized value $PVE::JSONSchema::PVE_TAG_RE in concatenation

    Hello, I just updated to 7.3.1 from 7.2 and I have this error whenever I run any PVE related command : :~# pveversion -v Use of uninitialized value $PVE::JSONSchema::PVE_TAG_RE in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/DataCenterConfig.pm line 147. Use of uninitialized value...
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    VM ip alias with own mac address for each

    Hi, I have a PVE 7.1 on OVH server. There you need to have OVH generated virtual mac address for each IP you assign to VM. I have no problem for adding single IP to any VM with mac generated from OVH . However, I can't find way to make multiple IP work for single VM. My network is in bridge...
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    IPv6 Configuration OVH server

    Hello, Using Proxmox 7.1 on OVH using their provided template. I have successfully configured IPv4 but have doubts about getting IPv6 working. Kindly bear with as I am still learning and open to all advice . Current /etc/network/interfaces output of PVE host: auto lo iface lo inet loopback...