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    Garbage pixels on top of screen when installing PVE 8.2 on SuperMicro X10SDV

    Trying to install PVE 8.2 on a SuperMicro X10SDV-4C-7TP4F board, I write ISO to USB using Rufus (also tried Balena), boot from USB, see garbage pixels on top of physical VGA monitor screen, and also on remote HTML5 IPMI screen. Found forum posts that talks about needing to use `nomodeset` on...
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    `import-from` directive ignores `format=qcow2` and creates `raw` image

    I am using `import-from` when create a VM or changing the assigned disk, and the imported disk images are always `raw`, wasting lots of space for templates. Using `qm set <vmid> --scsi0 "<storage>,import-from=<image>,format=qcow2"` creates a `raw` image, and ignores the `qcow2` format request...
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    Unable to clone VM template after updating disk image

    I am trying to automate up to date cloud images for Ubuntu and Debian VM templates. Once a template has been cloned using linked clones, it is not possible to delete the template, so I just change the disk to be used in new clones, while the existing clones can still link to previous disk...
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    Creating cloud images using Ansible fails while the same commands work in the shell

    I also asked in stackoverflow, but trying here. I am updating my Ansible PVE deployment to create cloud image templates. I have a working shell script, and I just converted the commands to an Ansible "shell" command, the results are weird, sometimes working, sometimes not, sometimes I end up...
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    SAS drives are shown as unknown type

    Hi, I just installed 4 x SAS3 drives in ZFS mirror config. The disks UI shows the type as unknown, and the serial number shows the WWN not the serial number. smartctl does identify the disks as SAS3, and does show the correct serial number. 1) How do I get the disk type to correctly show as...
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    How to use more than 1/4 of disk for root?

    I installed PVE ona 32GB USB stick, that leaves me with a 7GB pve-root partition, 3.5G for swap, and 12.1G for data. After using PVE for a week, I started running out of root space. I thought about re-installing and correcting the space allocation, but the install wiki says that the max root...
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    Bind Mount Point permissions

    Hi, new user, trying to create bind mounts inside a container pointing to zfs datasets. I create my zpool, and datasets, e.g. zfs create ssdpool/test zfs set mountpoint=/mnt/bind/test ssdpool/test I use a Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS container, and I add: pct set 100 -mp1 /mnt/bind/test,mp=/test I...