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Recent OVH SYS servers are now configured to use UEFI, and their Proxmox 5 (ZFS) installer template manages the post-install setup so Proxmox can boot. The EFI system partition doesn't appear to be synced across multiple disks, and it's unclear how this will deal with a kernel update. Asking...

I've made a mistake today. I was trying to modify l2arc_write_max and l2arc_write_boost. What i did was: CAREFUL THIS IS WRONG options zfs l2arc_write_max 67108864 options zfs l2arc_write_boost 134217728 it should be options zfs l2arc_write_max=67108864 options zfs...

Hi, I have a running Proxmox server running some VM images with GPU passthru for some time. I have a desire to access an old linux installation from my old desk top pc running Centos5. I have now installed the hard disk into my server and was able to add the disk to an existing ubuntu VM in...

Hallo, we want to install some VM's automatically. For this we have created a shell script which use the qm create command to create the VM. qm create $ID -name $NAME -bootdisk scsi0 -scsi0 NVME:$DISK1SIZE -scsihw virtio-scsi-pci -scsi1 HDD:$DISK2SIZE -memory 8192 -ostype l26 -sockets $SOCKETS...

Hi, I am using Proxmox VE 5.2-1 and installed a Windows Server 2016 VM. Everything works fine except restarting the VM i.e. after a Windows update. If the VM is restartet it keeps rebooting at the very beginning of the boot proces - just after finding the harddisk. The same happens if I select...

Hi, Have been fighting with this for 2 days now. In order to get more free space for more hdds inside the whitebox cluster I have, I bought external disk caddies that I thought I'd boot from. Booting from the Proxmox USB stick and installing it on the external USB drive, with the old drive...

Hello, I have a Proliant DL380 G7 with dual CPU (x5690) and HP P410i smart raid controller. The controller does not support HBA / JBOD so I initialized the disks all as a single volume. I have the following drives available: - 1 SSD 120 GB for ZFS caching - 3 78 GB 15K SAS drives planned for...

After doing an `apt update` and then an `apt upgrade` my proxmox server no longer boots. Old kernel (which i can manually select and boot from) is 4.15.10-1. There is no subscription, so the updates were from pve-nosubscription. The hardware is a HP DL380p G8. This is easily reproducable for...

Hi all, I just upgrade my container from debian 8 to debian 9 and now when I restart the container with the button "shutdown" and after "start" from the proxmox interface the container start but the apache and mysql service need to be start by command line. root@host4-vm106:~# cat...

Hello, I have a "specific" setup on my proxmox machine. There are 16 SCSI disks passed through to VM machine as VIRTIO-SCSII devices, there is also a pendrive passed through, and this VM runs unRaid system. As there is no possibility to automatically boot from passed through USB (AFAIK) i...

We have some server that display some really long boot time. We are talking about 30min to 45min each. At first I though it was related to the server POST but the image here show the server finished his POST correctly and gave control to the OS. This is where they hang for 30+ min. We have...

How can I fix the boot / startup process on pmx4.4 when I can start a node perfectly using "rescue mode" from the iso, but trying to boot directly only gives me a black screen with a blinking cursor? Nothing is logged during that failed boot.

Hi there! I'm attempting to configure dual GPU passhtrough to two guest Win10 VMs. I managed to pass the first GPU to a Win10 guest just fine (GTX 750Ti). I then decided to add the second GPU (GTX980), so I included its IDs to "/etc/modprobe.d/vfio.conf" and rebooted the server as per the...

Hello! I have migrated / copied over a virtual disk (qcow2) created with Virsh. This disk has 2 partitions and uses UEFI. When I start a VM in Proxmox using this virtual disk, the SeaBIOS is loaded and fails to boot UEFI. How can I fix this? THX

I was doing audit when found some files missing in original Proxmox 5.1.2 install dude@pve:~$ ls -l /vmlinuz* /initrd* /boot/vmlinuz* ls: cannot access '/vmlinuz*': No such file or directory ls: cannot access '/initrd*': No such file or directory -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7960336 Jan 2 10:03...

Hey All ! we have guest machine with Debian installed, everytime we are rebooting from inside the guest (running reboot command from cli), the machine stuck on "Booting from hard disk". For now we solve it by ssh into the Proxmox host and run - qm stop machine_id and after it - qm start...

Hi there, I have a VM with xpenology 6.0 installed, I managed to copy from usb into /var/lib/vz/images/100/ the synoboot.img then I edited the 100.conf file, with nano /etc/pve/qemu-server/100.conf adding: args: -device 'piix3-usb-uhci,addr=0x18' -drive...

Hi! just did a dist-upgrade to upgrade my PVE node from 4.2 to 4.4. upgrade process was good, but after the system reboot it won't start on default mode. the output of journalctl -xe is attached. I need some help to identify the error, thanks in advance.

Just downloaded 5.1 on USB and installed via UEFI, (ZFS Raid 0 with 4 disks) and proxmox will not boot at all. I can boot via recovery on UEFI just fine, can run update-grub: Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.13.4-1-pve Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.13.4-1-pve Found memtest86+ image...

Hello, Is it a good idea to install Proxmox VE 5 on an SD card? I have a new Dell R630 server with a dual SD card and I would avoid using my SSD disks to install the system. Thank you