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    Can not Backup while Disk Throttle is set

    Hello, thanks for your reply. It's a 3 nodes cluster. There is not anything too important on it but i dont want to risk it. I think its better to wait for release, thanks again.
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    Shutdown Proxmox with cron job

    Yes it is possible. Server will send acpi shutdown to all VMs, if they wont stop in timeout, the KVM process will be killed.
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    Windows 7 KVM guests

    You have three way for this, third one is my preferred way. 1) Install with IDE then shutdown. Add a secondary virtio drive. Place virtio iso to cd drive. Start VM after boot install drivers. Shutdown again. Remove and delete secondary drive. Remove first drive and add again with virtio...
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    Creating VM's - Best Practice

    http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/23606-Windows-7-KVM-guests?p=118277#post118277
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    Windows 7 KVM guests

    IDE is painfully slow. SATA has migration problems. Cant live migrate a VM to another Proxmox node. I did not do any benchmark for this reason. SCSI with controller type VIRTIO is fast also supports discard (TRIM). Actually i am using this for my VMs. VIRTIO is also fast. You can use VIRTIO or...
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    Windows 7 KVM guests

    My personel experiences are (mostly on Linux and Windows Servers); - Linux and Windows : Backing storage is critical for VM performances, use fast disks with RAID10 if possible - Linux and Windows : Qcow2 is enough for most workloads (use preallocation=metadata) but never use it with ide, always...
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    Can not Backup while Disk Throttle is set

    I tried to find the problem and strace'd the proxmox backup task's pid. (it was 26074). it was looping like this; stat("/etc/pve/nodes/node02/qemu-server/99999.conf", {st_dev=makedev(0, 22), st_ino=1101, st_mode=S_IFREG|0640, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=33, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=1...
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    Can not Backup while Disk Throttle is set

    root@node02:~# qm config 99999 acpi: 1 boot: c bootdisk: virtio0 cores: 4 cpuunits: 1000 description: Old Windows 2003 freeze: 0 hotplug: 0 ide2: none,media=cdrom kvm: 1 memory: 6144 name: OldWindows2k3 net0: virtio=6A:6D:B1:4F:3E:7C,link_down=1 onboot: 0 ostype: wxp sockets: 1 tablet: 0...
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    Can not Backup while Disk Throttle is set

    Hello, I am using pve-manager/3.4-9/4b51d87a (running kernel: 3.10.0-11-pve) and testing Disk Throttle. It runs pretty good. But have an issue with backups. If virtual hard disk has limits; backup command starts then waits for at 0, never make a progress. INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump...
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    Linux guest problems on new Haswell-EP processors

    I cant remember when but we had a similar problem. We disabled intel power features from BIOS and changed some lines in /etc/default/grub as follows; GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Proxmox Virtual Environment" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet scsi_mod.scan=sync rootdelay=30...
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    BUG: GFS2 Issue Kernel Panic when delete on a new fresh filesystem.

    I dont know if this helps but, the last good kernel is pve-kernel-2.6.32-27-pve for GFS2.
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    cluster HA LVM service fails beacuse of a bug

    thanks, problem reported. https://github.com/ClusterLabs/resource-agents/issues/671
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    cluster HA LVM service fails beacuse of a bug

    Hello, I was playing with proxmox cluster for active/passive SAN configuration using HA LVM and ext4. I configured cluster.conf and lvm.conf but my service was not starting with error; Sep 02 00:04:34 rgmanager Starting disabled service service:GlusterHA Sep 02 00:04:35 rgmanager [lvm] HA...
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    BUG: GFS2 Issue Kernel Panic when delete on a new fresh filesystem.

    I am not sure which log i need to look. Here are the parts that i think relevant. Boot of the node; /var/log/boot Sat Aug 15 20:00:14 2015: Starting cluster: Sat Aug 15 20:00:14 2015: Checking if cluster has been disabled at boot... [ OK ] Sat Aug 15 20:00:14 2015: Checking Network...
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    BUG: GFS2 Issue Kernel Panic when delete on a new fresh filesystem.

    Hello, I wanted to test latest gfs2-utils package from git and build it. local locks are ok but i could not mount with dlm, server just hangs... Anybody had a problem like this? root@node01:~# pveversion pve-manager/3.4-9/4b51d87a (running kernel: 3.10.0-11-pve) root@node01:~# aptitude show...

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