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    Server Hardware ändern/umziehen

    Hallo Leute, ich habe aktuell einen Proxmoxserver 7.0-11 laufen(1xSSD(Host), 1xHDD(Speicher). Darauf laufen 3 lxc´s(Nextcloud, Wireguard, PiHole) und eine VM(Windows10). Diese 4 Maschinen habe ich über die backup/restore Funktion auf meinen übers Netzwerk verbundenen RaspberryPi(OpenMediaVault)...
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    Duplicate a dying SSD (LVM-Thin) drive with new identical SSD

    Hello, I've inherited a ProxMox server. It currently has approximately 10 VM's running on it. But I got an alert that one of the SSD drives (only two in the entire server) that houses the VM's is dying. So I bought a brand new SSD same size same make model, everything. But currently I have...
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    Re install OS to recover VM without losing Data

    Hi There. as shown in the attached, The OS wouldn't boot ( ubuntu ) and the only way is to re install the OS, But unfortunately my back wasn't up to date. IF I go to the actual VM, and attache ISO file in order to re install the OS, would that mess up my data ( Hard drive - zfs-local ) ...
  4. vanttech

    Unable to Activate Windows 11 Clone

    So I am running PVE7.0-13 and was able to get a Windows 11 VM working and it looks great I must add. The issue began after I decided to deploy cloubase-init for Windows and that also is working as a charm following some developments on a different thread on this forum. However after marking the...
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    Changing storage type from directory to NFS and vice versa

    Hello guys, We have several hosts with directory type storage. Anyone tried to change it from directory to NFS? My idea is to start the NFS server on the node, configure the same directory to exports file and change the storage type from the GUI. (and by change I mean remove the existing and...
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    Linked Clones Unavailable to VMs!

    Hello, Are you able to create a LINKED CLONE from a VM? I find so much information about how to do it, yet I am not able to. After a great deal of frustration switching from a Directory storage to LVM-Thin, based on this Proxmox guide: VM Templates and Clones; I still did not have any...
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    Windows 10 clone : Sysprep not work

    Hello, I created a Windows 10 VM on which I did all the updates, installed all the drivers, made all my personnal configurations and now I would like to be able to duplicate this VM. So, I wanted to convert this VM as a template but before, that I saw that it was necessary to run the SYSPREP...
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    Contributors wanted / PBS as an alternative to Clonezilla

    I'm going to switch to PBS as an alternative to Clonezilla when storing images. The system is complete (but not finished) and is working fine, even I've to do some tasks by console which is totally fine for me. The setup consists of a Debian Live system (Debian Live Manual) and a handful of...
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    migration of a virtual machine to another storage

    Hi, I'm trying to move VM from one node to another. I cannot use 'clone' because storage choosing option is unavailable. So I created backup and moved it to destination node. Now I'm getting error: no such volume group '<disk_name>' error. Okay, this storage doesn't exist on this node, how can...
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    IP Address duplicates/conflicts when cloning from a template

    Hi all, One of the first things I did after setting up my PVE was creating a basic installation of Ubuntu Server, get it set up with all the basic bits, and then convert it to a template. I have cloned (full clone) this template a number of times and I did notice that each time I cloned it...
  11. florian-n

    [SOLVED] Cloud-init isn't applied after linked clone of template via API

    Hi, currently we're trying to create template based clones using Ansible's community.general.proxmox_kvm. To make the clones configurable we stick with cloud-init. We are building the template using a hand rolled Packer configuration which deploys fine (locally as well as in our production...
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    Snapshots, templates, clones, backups: how do they all compare?

    PVE newbie here. 1. How does the following wiki page apply to LXC Containers? https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/VM_Templates_and_Clones 2. There's no mention of "snapshots" in the above wiki page, even though PVE 6.2-11 seems to feature snapshot feature prominently over "template." Is this above...
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    Clone VMs in Proxmox Cluster from templates

    Hello, I have a cluster of 9 nodes in Proxmox. And I want to clone VMs on one of the nodes with a template from another node, but I get an error which says that the Proxmox Node is not allowed for this action. I also attached a screenshot with the error. Does someone have any clue about this...
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    Full clone feature is not supported for drive 'efidisk0' (500)?

    Hi There, When I try to clone an existing VM from the (not-current/not-latest) snapshot, I get the following error (with the error seemingly randomly either related to scsi0 or efidisk0)? Is this expected or a bug? The configuration of the source VM being cloned is as follows...
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    Clone vms on multiple nodes

    Hi have 10 plus nodes in a cluster And i have 4 vms that i want to clone to each node is there a way to do it faster then do it one by one.? Kind regards Ole
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    Extend LVM and LVM-Thin

    Hi folks, how do I resize my LVM and LVM-Thin? I changed my main drive from a 60GB ssd to a 500GB ssd (cloned the drive with clonezilla). Then, I resized the root partition with gparted, and it seems all good so far. However, I do not see the extra space in LVM and LVM-Thin. While the new ssd...
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    Cloning PVE 6.1-2 From One Disk to Another

    New to Linux so forgive my ignorance about anything. Hoping to switch off of HyperV. I setup a single 120GB SSD non-UEFI computer with the storage defaults (Not ZFS). I customized a great many things and then used a HDD duplicator to clone to a 250GB destination disk. To my surprise the cloned...
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    [SOLVED] Problem in creating template and cloning with an LVM VG

    Hi. I followed the instructions from this page to create a vm: wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/bionic/current/bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.img qm create 9000 --memory 2048 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0 qm importdisk 9000 bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.img vms qm set 9000 --scsihw...
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    [SOLVED] Feature: Add the unique parameter to the cloning window

    When restoring a CT from a backup, we have the possibility to select the Unique option which generate unique properties like MAC address. It would be useful to have this option when cloning a CT from a snapshot.
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    Can't create VM on Proxmox 6.1!

    Hello, I can't create VM from a template neither in the cluster with subscription, nor in cluster without it... I get the same error: # qm clone 105 135 Use of uninitialized value $nodename in hash element at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Cluster.pm line 724. Use of uninitialized value $nodename in...

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