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    Nested ESXi 8.0 on PVE 8.0 host

    Trying to install ESXi v8.0 as a nested VM on a PVE 8.0 host, but the installer fails at the installation phase with the following error: "Disk device does not support OSDATA" (see attached screenshots) According to VMware [1] the above message is shown when the installer detects the local...
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    how to disable cronjob e-mail alerts?

    hello I have configured e-mail alerts on the pve hosts and they are successfully being sent to the root account (which then forwards to my real e-mail account). What I’m trying to figure out is how to disable e-mail alerts sent by cron. If that’s not possible, can I somehow disable only zfs...
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    [LXC] Persistent custom mount options for rootfs ?

    Hello, I've got a quick question in regards to LXC containers and the possibility to add persistent mount options for the rootfs filesystem (ext4). Just wanted to clarify that I am *not* using ZFS as a backend for my LXC containers (not sure if that plays a role for having this settings set...
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    smartcard support on spice, guest vm?

    Hello, I read that SPICE currently supports smartcard passthrough. My question is if this is supported in PVE as well? Is it possible to enable it in guest vm , similar to what we do to enable usb support (usb:spice). I would like to passthrough both builtin and usb card readers. I have...
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    Can't create lxc container on ceph (krbd) storage

    Hello, I tried to create a lxc container after applying the latest pve (no subscription) updates, but it seems that it doesn't provide me anymore the option to select ceph rbd storage during the 'create CT' wizard. I have a single ceph pool which I export as 2 separate storages on pve (one...
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    Issues with Ceph snapshots in PVE 4.3-66?

    Hello, I have the following situation after the last upgrade to proxmox-ve 4.3-66. proxmox-ve: 4.3-66 (running kernel: 4.4.19-1-pve) pve-manager: 4.3-3 (running version: 4.3-3/557191d3) pve-kernel-4.4.19-1-pve: 4.4.19-66 lvm2: 2.02.116-pve3 corosync-pve: 2.4.0-1 libqb0: 1.0-1 pve-cluster...
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    cannot access web interface on a standalone 4.2 pve server

    Hello, Just installed PVE 4.2 ontop of a blank Debian Jessie. I followed this link from wiki in order to do that. Initially I could access the webif without any issues, but after installing openvswitch on the same machine I can't anymore, although I can access normally the machine via ssh...
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    Multiple SystemD errors during startup after upgrade from PVE 3.4

    Hello list, I've upgraded a standalone node from PVE 3.4 to 4.1 by following the guide in Wiki (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_3.x_to_4.0). Everything went smooth until the point that I restarted the node. During startup I'm getting the following message which is flooding the...
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    drbd 8.4.6 on pve 4.0?

    Hello, PVE 4.0 ships with DRBD9 already included in the pve kernel. Is it possible to use drbd 8.4.6 (compiled from source) instead? I'm trying to compile it against 4.2.3-2-pve but I get the following error: PVE headers and build-essential already installed. Thanks
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    Partition alignment tool for Windows XP/2k3?

    hello all, I have a windows 2003 machine which is not properly aligned (4K block),so disk performance is not optimal. I would like to know if there is a tool (preferably free) to properly align NTFS partition to 4K block sector inside windows VM. I can do both offline/online conversion but I...
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    Native ZoL on proxmox nodes and live migration.

    hello and happy new year! I have two nodes with latest proxmox installed, without HA enabled. As vm storage I currently use ZoL(zfs on linux) on both nodes. Each vm reside on separate ZVOL which is replicated with DRBD on both nodes.Thus DRBD sits on top of each zvol and each vm is a separate...
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    mount.nfs: requested NFS version or transport protocol is not supported

    Hello I have 2 proxmox nodes in a cluster. I am using debian wheezy with proxmox repos. One of nodes acts as nfs server for iso files. It was working normally but now it does not. On syslog I get the message: mount.nfs: requested NFS version or transport protocol is not supported On NFS server...
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    pfSense 2.1.5 (i386) - lan interface stops responding after some time

    hello, Recently I tried to virtualize a pfSense 2.1.5 i386 on pve vm with the following config: balloon: 512bootdisk: ide0 cores: 1 cpuunits: 5000 ide0: local:100/vm-100-disk-1.qcow2,format=qcow2,cache=directsync,size=10922M ide2: none,media=cdrom memory: 1250 name: pfsense net0...
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    High I/O usage on Win2000 vm

    hello I did p2v on an old physical win2k server and put it as vm on a standalone proxmox node. VM booted normally but I have very high i/o usage which makes things very difficult. On same Proxmox nodeI have another vm with win2003 which also did p2v from another physical server.This vm runs as...
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    Cannot set mtu 9000 after upgrade to kernel 2.6.32-32-pve

    Hello! I have problem setting mtu 9000 on a nic on one of two proxmox nodes after upgrading to kernel 2.6.32-32-pve.If I rollback to kernel 2.6.32-31-pve there is not such issue. Below is some info: root@proxmox2:~# pveversion -v proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 3.2-136 (running kernel: 2.6.32-32-pve)...
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    no failback when using failover domains on two node cluster

    Hello I'm experimenting on two node cluster with drbd and lvm on top for vms. I don't have a fencing device for the time so I'm using fence_manual and fence_ack_manual command to simulate fencing.Everything works as expected .The only difficulty I have is with failover domains. I have 5 HA vms...
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    zfs , live migration and performance considerations.

    I have a proxmox host with 4x1Tb hdds in ZFS striped mirror setup and all vms are located on a dataset. Now I am thinking to add another proxmox host with the same hardware config and zfs as backend storage. I would like to test also live migration between these two nodes.So I am thinking of two...
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    Could not read qcow2 header: Operation not permitted (500) on GlusterFS volume

    Hello, I have a standalone proxmox node with with several VMs on ZFS volume and it is working fine. Now, on a separate two node test cluster, I created 2 ZFS datasets. These 2 datasets will be replicated through GlusterFS on both nodes (2).Each dataset will store a separate VM which will be...
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    Live migration fails when spice session is open to the guest vm

    Hello, I have a win7 vm with virtio drivers and spice guest additions installed. When I live migrate vm without opening a spice session to guest vm via remote viewer live migration succeeds. When spice session is open to guest vm and try to live migrate then it fails with the following error...
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    Two node cluster + qdisk. Rgmanager stops after qdisk failure.

    Hello, Currently testing a two node cluster + qdisk and manual fencing(for the moment). I've noticed that when I poweroff qdisk, cluster seems to have quorum (2 nodes left) but the rgmanager service is in "stopped" stated. I cannot start vms which are HA enabled.I can start vms which are not HA...

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