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    [SOLVED] Wake-on-lan - doesn't work on Proxmox (Atheros Killer E2400)

    I repurposed my old gaming rig into a PVE host, it's equipped with Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming K4 motherboard that comes with Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10). Back, when this host had Windows 7 installed, I was able to configure the Wake-on-lan in NIC's settings to...
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    [SOLVED] Auto-Login for Root on Local TTY or Password-Free Access

    Hello! I'm looking for a way to enable root auto-login or bypass the password prompt, but only for local TTY (physical monitor and keyboard). It's important that full PAM authentication remains for web GUI and remote access. Anybody knows the elegant way to achieve this?
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    [SOLVED] Fine-tuning user permissions

    Hello! I'm looking for neat way, to allow given user/token to perform only one particular action: to shutdown a node and shutdown/start a VM. The only way I came up with, it using SSH and adding a command-specific SSH key to the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys, something like command="shutdown"...
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    How to make a best use of an SSD drive in VMs?

    On my proxmox machine I got two SSD drives natively connected to it. First disk is for proxmox OS, the other I want to use in VMs. Basically, I want to use half of this second SSD drive in one VM, and other half in another, preferably with auto-adjusting sizes (in case one VM needs more than a...
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    VM CPU issues: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7 stuck for 22s!

    Hello! Every couple of weeks various VMs tend to become problematic and their consoles show the following errors: Rebooting the VM fixes the issue. How do I diagnose what's going wrong? In that state of the VM, I'm unable to SSH into it. The Proxmox is installed on HP Proliant DL380e...
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    Snapshots on LMV-thin stopped working after failed backup job

    I have a VM (id=100) that runs OpenMediaVault - NAS server with CIFS shares. For the past 117 days everything was working properly, the backups were done every night with no errors. I initiated manual backup of this VM - and it failed. Here's the event log: INFO: starting new backup job...
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    [SOLVED] Full name in email notification instead of only "root"

    Hi! I filled the "First Name" and "Last Name" in Datacenter > Permission > Users for user "root". I also set up the Datacenter > Options > Email from address, but the notification in my inbox still only shows "root" in the "From" field. It needs 2 more clicks in most of mail clients to show...
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    Promox reports high memory usage where VM reports low usage

    Hi! I'm using Proxmox 7.0. It reports that my openmediavault VM uses 95.32% (7.63 GiB of 8.00 GiB) or RAM, where OMV claims to be using 229M/7.77G. OMV reports: This is confirmed by: # free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem...
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    Locally mounting drive that has been passed-through to VM

    Hi! I'm running Proxmox 7.0 on HP Proliant DL380e Gen8. I have RAID-1 and RAID-6 configured on P420. Proxmox in installed on volume from RAID1 I've passed-through the RAID6 volume to a VM via qm set 100 -virtio5 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. I did a little experiment: I mounted...
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    HP Proliant DL380e Gen8 - S.M.A.R.T. and other diagnostics in iLO

    Hello! I'm running Proxmox 7.0, I installed the hp-ams from deb http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp jessie/current non-free (there was no hp-ams in buster nor in stretch repos. I'm running RAID-1 and RAID-6 on P40 in this machine - how can I see the diagnostics od hard drives? Proxmox...
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    Booting Proxmox from internal SD card (only /boot partition)

    Hello! I'm trying to setup a Proxmox installation on HP Proliant DL380e with ZFS on P420. I switched it to HBA mode and I'm trying to follow this tutorial. I'm having issues with the Step 2. I'm running the commands below on live debian 11. I installed zfsutils-linux and SSH (SSH because iLO...
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    Rename proxmox host by joining cluster

    Hello! So back a while ago, I made a mistake of giving my proxmox server the hostname of "proxmox" as it would remain the only one proxmox machine in my house. That didn't age well and now I want to rename it. AFAIK, there's no such feature in proxmox itself, so I need to do full re-install...
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    Filesystem and disk array configuration recommendation

    Hello! I bought a HP Proliant DL380e G8 server with 2xE5-2450L and 64GB of RAM. I have 4 x WD Red WD40EFAX 4TB HDDs and 2 x ADATA 240GB 2,5" SATA Ultimate SU630 SSDs. The server RAID battery has been refurbished. Here are the RAID controllers on this machine: [12:08:36][root@zoltan]:~# lspci...

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