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    [SOLVED] Issue with Ubuntu VM Setup on Proxmox VE with 4 Core CPU

    I'm running Proxmox VE on a PC with 4 physical cores. When I try to create an Ubuntu virtual machine using all 4 cores, it stops with errors during the setup process. I would appreciate if someone could advise me on how to resolve this issue.
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    Need guidance on best setup

    Hi all, I am looking for some advice on how to best configure my PVE cluster - will really appreciate some guidance! My current hardware consists of: Nodes: - 4 x MS-01 workstations (Intel 13900H, 96GB RAM, 2TB NVMe, 2 x 2.5GBe, 2 x 10GBe) Switches: - TP-Link 5 port (10GBe) - Netgear 5 port...
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    Performance Issues with VMs and Host During Compilation on Proxmox – Possible SSD Bottleneck?

    Hello Proxmox community, I’m experiencing performance issues on my Proxmox VE setup and would appreciate some guidance. I’m running a Proxmox host with dual processors (88 threads total, with less than half allocated to VMs), plenty of spare RAM, and all VMs stored on a single Kingston SSDNow...
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    Managing an ISCSI LUN in the proxmox gui.

    I'm new to proxmox, and new to enterprise hypervisors in general. Running 8.3.2 I'm hoping this is a very basic question, and I've just somehow missed the answer in the documentation. We have dedicated SAN units that share out storage. I can see, and use the assigned LUN from the SAN in...
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    Cannot connect to PMX but VM's can be reached.

    Hi. My VMs can connect to the internet and allow connection from the LAN but, the proxmox host cannot be reached from the LAN, and when logged on using on the console directly it cannot even ping the gateway. Routing is in order. Interface config seems in order. Switch config seems fine. I did...
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    New ZFS setup on new install feels "off" somehow

    Current system - CPU is a Xeon E5-2697 v4 384 GB of memory x6 Seagate st8000nm0075 8TB drives connected in HBA mode through Dell PERC H730P Just spun up and migrated over to this "new to me" server. Was running a hardware RAID 10 for many years previously with x4 of the 8TB Seagate drives...
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    Thoughts on proposed configuration...

    I have been running a Proxmox server for about a year and a half, simply hosting Home Assistant and Pi-hole. I am in the process of adding 2 new "servers" and have been doing a lot of research about configuration. Here is my proposed thoughts. I would love to hear any pros/cons of this...
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    Missing comments at action objects in PMG

    At Who, What and When Objects there are missing comment column. It's pretty important for us when we adding a lot of IP addresses, domains, emails, etc. - in 6 months we will not know why, when, etc. In other locations we using comments for ticket IDs, etc.
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    PCI Passthrough Causing Console Not To Work

    Hello, I'm having a strange problem. whenever I passthrough my LSI 9210-8i [LSI SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03)] to my VM. The VM console stops working. I get this error: VM 100 qmp command 'set_password' failed - unable to connect to VM 100 qmp socket - timeout after...
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    backup win10 vm with pxe boot, how to boot without pxe

    Hi folks, i'm a bit of a noob with proxmox. i'm pulling my hair out with anything windows on proxmox.... i have a pxe boot win10 vm (he uses pxe boot in his setup, i do not) that a friend gave me and I was able to get it booted once. I dont remember my config. I have a brand new installation...
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    Notification options for creating a VM

    Hi, I am currently trying to set up a notification to get information if one of our users creates a vm. Which matching type do I have to set for this? I tried to put the matching type field on qmcreate but it didn't work. Are there any other options? Thanks in advance
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    Changing Hardware - leads to configuration and access disaster

    Hi, I'm kind of a beginner to Proxmox, but I have some basic knowledge about hypervisors and such. Maybe I'm stupid, but I also read the following thread, marked as solved, which gives me a very bad "feeling" regarding proxmox' behavior on system faults, stability, and hardware changes...
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    Mount and Claim Disks in GUI

    Hello, all. I'm a new Proxmox user and not the best at Linux. For my life, I can't figure out why I can't mount and claim the disks in the Proxmox GUI and Shell. I receive an input/output error when attempting to initialize the disks with GPT in the GUI. I tried to fdisk on the command line and...
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    No DKIM signature

    Hello :) I have PMG (version 8.1.4 up to date) as a front-end server and a Debian Postfix / Dovecot server (Debian 12 up to date) for mail storage. PMG is used to filter incoming and outgoing mail for spam and viruses. I wanted to add the DKIM signature on Proxmox, I created the selector...
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    Setting Up a Dynamic Proxmox Cluster with Normally-Off Nodes (Non-HA Setup)

    Hello Proxmox Community, I'm working on a home lab and need to save power, so most of my nodes are powered off most of the time. My goal is to set up a Proxmox cluster that can dynamically scale as nodes are powered on and off without requiring high availability (HA) or strict quorum. I’m fine...
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    Install and configure proxmox 8.2 ve on HPE servers

    hello everyone, I'm still a newbie in the proxmox system. I have a server with the following specifications: Server type: HPE DL380 Gen 10 Processor: Intel Xeon-Gold 5218 Storage controller: P408i-a w/2gb cache (support hybrid mode) HDD : 16x HPE 2.4TB SAS12G 10K SFF SC 512e Ds HDD Memory: 64gb...
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    Individual IP for VMs

    Hello, I would like to set up an environment with multiple VMs running on a single server and assign an individual static IP for each of the VMs. The main server would be connecting to a single router with a public static IP. Is there even a way to do this? I am new to this so apologies if this...
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    ZFS over iSCSI with QNAP QuTS hero

    Hello everyone, I wanted to implement ZFS over iSCSI with my Proxmox-Cluster (4 nodes) and my QNAP SAN connected via 25G Ethernet. I have found a lot of forum entries on some relevant topics but I am missing a bit a general guidance. What I found is that there needs to be a "plugin"...
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    Problems with IOMMU being detected

    Hello everyone, I'm new to PVE and I have been struggling with using IOMMU. I have been trying everything I have seen on the internet, but I can't get IOMMU to be detected even though it's enabled. I have reinstalled PVE a couple of times but still it was not working, I tried booting with ZFS...
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    Best Practice Boot Drive

    Building a Server, all options are on the table. HBA card installed, enterprise SSD Sata in mirrored configuration for the DATA. For the Boot Drive. (Drives would also be Enterprise) I know all of the following options would work, I am just looking for the Best choice. Best/Easiest to...