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    p2v of Windows XP with selfimage not working anymore

    Hi everybody, i am trying to migrate some physical Windows XP machines to VMs...don't ask me why this is needed...it is unfortunately :) I remember the great easyness to accomplish such tasks on the fly using selfimage, but unfortunately this doesn't seem to work anymore. Maybe you have some...
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    qcow2 corruption after snapshot or heavy disk I/O

    Hi, we were just facing this really odd trouble here, and wondered if anyone was experiencing the same or has any answers: - Virtual Environment 4.4-12/e71b7a74 on supermicro server hardware with LSI RAID Adapter. RAID1 with two 3 TB disks, no errors in Raid, no Errors in (ECC) RAM -...
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    [SOLVED] "unable to activate volume group" while installation

    Hi! i am trying to install PVE 4.2 on a new Hetzner Server. The Server has two 3TB Sata Disks on an LSI HWR. As soon as Proxmox wants to configure the partitions, unfortunately i get: "unable to activate volume group" Any idea, what might be wrong here? here's a screenshot of the KVM after the...
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    [SOLVED] migration from raw to qcow2, Windows XP guest won't boot

    Hello! on our Porxmox VE 4.2 we have a working windows XP guest with a "raw" disk image. In order to being able to use live snapshots, i want to migrate the raw image to qcow2. I did that by using the PVE GUI (after preparing the storage to be mounted). Now, when i want to start the XP guest, i...
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    KCM guest SLES 11 SP2 only working with ide? no virtio possible?

    Hi, i was wondering, if by any chance it was possible to change the harddisk bus from ide to virtio in a SLES 11 KVM guest. It just doesn't seem t o boot properly with virtio, as assumingly ther's no virtio support in the kernel of SLES. Anyone been through this before, and able to help me...
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    LTO-5 Tape Drive as backup drive

    Hi! I have an LTO-5 SAS Tapedrive here that i would like to use for daily snapshot backups. Only i don't really know how to enbind it correctly into a proxmox ve 2.1 host. Any ideas? Thank you Sascha
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    Monitoring Nagios check_msa_hardware.pl

    Hi! Very odd problem: I would love to use following script for nagios to monitor my msa2312i: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Hardware/Storage-Systems/SAN-and-NAS/Check-HP-MSA-(Modular-Smart-Array)-sensors/details While setting it up on my Proxmox server i found out that...
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    strange problem with two NICs

    Hi, first of all i want to say thank you, for this incredible piece of software that Proxmox VE is! Now on to my problem: I have two network cards in my server: hwinfo --netcard 09: PCI 306.0: 0200 Ethernet controller [Created at pci.310] Unique ID: rBUF.49XPc+GN1h3 Parent ID...
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    NFS-storage should work even though non-persistent

    Hi! I installed a debian-machine to work as a NFS-Share for my Proxmox VE Backups. However i don't want the machine to be online 24/7, so i configured the computer to turn on right before the backup (Wakeup in BIOS) and off just after it (cronjob). Unfortunately i have some problems with the...
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    vzdump fails: failed with exit code 141

    Hi everyone, just installed a second computer with ubuntu as an nfs-storage. The new nfs-storage is perfectly mounted under my proxmox-ve now, and the backup starts to work. But after a while the backup stops and in the generated .log i see this: Aug 18 16:13:01 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 101...