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    [Proxmox 6] How to add two existing nodes (with containers) to a cluster?

    Hi, I'm currently running 2 standalone Proxmox 6 nodes and I want them to be part of the same cluster. Containers' IDs are not overlapping from one node to the other. Is there a way to create a cluster with those two nodes without dump->transfer->import every container? Regards
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    Corosync disaster (different version between nodes)

    Hi, Short story: I have 2 different versions of corosync configuration on my cluster and now "pvecm status" gives me this ugly error: "Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/CLI/pvecm.pm line 479, <DATA> line 755." My cluster is totally broken. Long story: I'm...
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    Understand LXC container's storage size

    Hi, I have an LXC container that has a big storage defined in the web UI ("900G") but the filesystem seems not to have taken the last resizes commands into account. Here is the current state of the storage: On the container: #df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted...
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    Cluster Greyed Out

    Hi everyone, My Proxmox 6 Cluster is in a bad state. I wanted to add RAM to one of my containers (on which some processes were killed by OOM Killer) using the GUI and it displayed this error: A day after this issue, the cluster was in a very strange state: The quorum is OK (maximum votes)...
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    [SOLVED] Some services fail to start, trying to set up mount namespacing

    Hi everyone, I'm currently struggling with a blocking issue. I'm running proxmox 6 (proxmox-ve: 6.1-2 / kernel 5.3.10-1-pve) and created a container running Debian Buster from the latest standard template on pveam (debian-10.0-standard_10.0-1_amd64.tar.gz). The problem is that some services...
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    Syslog-ng write to /dev/tty10 that doesn't exists

    Hi everyone, My Proxmox 5 LXC containers are running syslog-ng on Debian 9 (stretch) and I found that syslog-ng defines /dev/tty10 by default as a log device. Ths problem is that /dev/tty10 doens't exists on containers created from the official Debian 9 template, leading syslog-ng to create a...
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    pvesr Trying to acquire cfs lock 'file-replication_cfg'

    Hi, I see those messages all the time in /var/log/syslog: Feb 19 04:57:00 proxmox5-02 pvesr[4360]: trying to acquire cfs lock 'file-replication_cfg' ... Feb 19 05:07:00 proxmox5-02 pvesr[30058]: trying to acquire cfs lock 'file-replication_cfg' ... Feb 19 05:13:00 proxmox5-02 pvesr[21507]...
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    Ability to visualize overallocation

    Hi everyone, Proxmox allow local RAM/disk overallocation (infinite "virtual" allocation whereas physical host has finite ressources) which is a great tool to optimize use of ressources. But overallocation can be tricky as it represent a risk for the global host (Out Of Memory, No space left on...
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    [SOLVED] LXC migration fails on ZFS

    Hi, I'm trying to cold-migrate an LXC container from a host to another. The LXC I want to migrate is located on a "local-zfs" pool created on the first node and enabled on every cluster node. Here is the migration log: 2018-08-31 10:12:54 starting migration of CT 162 to node...
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    [SOLVED] Cluster node under ZFS in a strange state (containers greyed out)

    After some GUI or CLI operations on containers (move volume to another storage for example), it happens that the hole node goes "crazy". The GUI shows every container with a grey question mark on it and no name associated and every command on containers doesn't work at all until I reboot the...
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    [SOLVED] How to properly set/use ZFS pools in a cluster?

    Hi everyone, I have a proxmox 4 cluster using local disks as storage (type = directory) and I'm currently testing ZFS pools on my futur cluster (proxmox 5). On my old cluster (storage type = directory), I can cold-migrate LXC containers from a proxmox host to another because every host has a...
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    Share files between LXC containers

    Hi everyone, Short question: What is the best way to share files between several LXC containers? I have a Proxmox 4 cluster and a Proxmox5 (ZFS storage) cluster. In both of them, I would like to create a shared filesystem (NFS, ZFS or whatever...) and mount it into several LXC containers in...
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    [SOLVED] ID already exist on a removed host

    Hello, I recently removed a node from my Proxmox 4 cluster. Now, I'm having toubles trying to create containers reusing ID that already existed in the recently removed node ("proxmox-07'"). # pct create 131 [...] CT 131 already exists on node 'proxmox-07' But pvecm nodes confirms that this...
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    localectl "connection timed out"

    Hello everyone, Here is my issue: localectl fails with "Could not get properties: Connection timed out" on a container running Debian 9 Stretch LXC template hosted on Proxmox 4 (Debian 8 Jessie). Used template: debian-9.0-standard_9.0-2_amd64.tar.gz (downloaded via pveam)...
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    Some features ideas for the web interface

    Hi, I'm using Proxmox for a year now in a production environment, making things over a Proxmox 4 cluster of 6 physical machines and running more than 60 LXC containers day after day. And you know what? It works as well as it could be! First, I want to thank you for all the good developments...
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    Error when setting cpulimit to 0 on web interface

    Hi, I'm running Proxmox 4 and would like to set cpu limit to 0 for all my guests in order to let guests use all physical CPU cores. But, when I go to the web interface, select a VM, go to Ressources > CPU Limit, set CPU Limit to 0 and then apply, I obtain this error message: closing file...
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    Move a virtual disk from a physical disk to another

    Hi, Here is my current configuration: 2 x 480Go SSD - RAID 1 /dev/md1 (20Go) mounted on "/" for debian/proxmox install /dev/md5 (460Go) -> /dev/mapper/pve-data (LVM) mounted on /var/lib/vz for containers 2 x 4To HDD - RAID 1 /dev/md2 (4To) -> /dev/mapper/vg1-dataslow (LVM) mounted on...
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    Modify files in /etc/pve

    Hi, I would like to change some settings in some /etc/pve/* files on my physical Proxmox hosts but I'm not able to create or modify files in this directory : # touch /etc/pve/test.file touch: impossible de faire un touch « /etc/pve/test.file »: Périphérique ou ressource occupé # mount | grep...
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    [SOLVED] Container network on Proxmox 4 / OVH

    Hi, I recently installed Proxmox 4 on a dedicated OVH server and then created a container like this: pct create 200 /var/lib/vz/template/cache/debian-8.0-standard_8.4-1_amd64.tar.gz -rootfs 25 -hostname myhost.mydomain.com -memory 1024 -nameserver 213.186.33.99 -net0...
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    [SOLVED] Fresh VM do not start (pve certificate error)

    Hi, I created a new virtual machine (myvm1.mydomain.com) on a new physical proxmox 4 host (myhost.mydomain.com). As I have a wildcard certificate for my domain (*.mydomain.com), I replaced /etc/pve/local/pve-ssl.pem with my wildcard certificate. I then tried to start a VM and got this error...

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