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    Debian VM RAM Assigned As SWAP

    I have created a Debian 10 or 11 vm and added 6GB of RAM but, this is allocated as swap inside the vm, have i dun something wrong. I have tried other OS both, Linux and windows and this seems to be only happening with Debian, i have tried with and without ballooning enabled and changing the...
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    Proxmox VE with cryptsetup on ZFS

    Hello Proxmox friends, I created a installer script to (automatically) install Proxmox VE with cryptsetup on ZFS using debian live image and debbootstrap. You can find it here: https://github.com/stackcoder/pve-zol Maybe it might be useful for someone here. Cheers, stackcoder
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    Increase Partition size

    Hi guys, I recently bought a server on which I run Proxmox for virtualization. First I installed Proxmox directly on my 1TB SSD, but then realized that I was losing almost 100GB for the "local" partition, but I wanted to use the fast SSD storage for the "local-lvm", i.e. the VMs themselves...
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    LXC Container - Errors / Warnings - ubuntu / debian

    I tried out the LXC containers recently. First I tried the debian template (debian-10-standard_10.7-1_amd64.tar.gz), downloaded via PVE Web GUI, created a new container via PVE Web GUI, set my hostname (debian) and password, for the network chose DHCP and left everything as default. However...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox install (local) minimal install

    I usually use the ISO to install Proxmox but it's very wasteful of drive space where it will automatically allocate about 100 GB to the local storage. Is there a way to tell Proxmox not to use that much space or do you have to install the OS First and then add Proxmox? If you have to install...
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    [SOLVED] Broken configuration

    Hello, After changing domain, lost all files in /etc/pve. I tried to purge proxmox, apt autoremove, install, but still nothing. Now when removing or installing, this happens: root@proxmox:~# apt remove proxmox-ve Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state...
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    Non-PVE Ceph Cluster Member

    I'm running a cluster in PVE and ceph as my main storage as is the norm these days, but for reasons that may or may not be common, I don't want to run PVE on all my guests or several of my physical machines. I would like to be able to install just enough software however to have Proxmox VE...
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    Hetzner Routed Config issue

    I have a dedicated server and a subnet on Hetzner, decided to use Network Configuration Hostsystem Routed config, was following their guide, https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/install-and-configure-proxmox_ve Here's my server config: auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface lo inet6 loopback...
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    Setting DNS for Debian cloud-init

    Hi. I have a problem setting dns for my cloud init debian 10 image. This is the command I use: qm set VMID --nameserver="4.2.2.4 8.8.4.4" But I can't access the VM via ssh. When I add nameservers manually to resolve.conf, it starts working. I have this issue only for debian. It works fine for...
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    Backups and snapshots corrupting filesystems on qcows

    I am new to proxmox and virtualization, so thanks for your patience with me. I have spend my weekend reinstalling a debian 10 vm countless times. The intended goal is to run home assistant in docker on this vm. Whenever I create a backup or a snapshot the filesystem in the qcow2 gets damaged...
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    Recreate LVM Thin

    I've installed Proxmox on top of Debian and now I lack LVM Thin. Now I can't create VM with local storage. Is it possible to simple recreate it somehow? Or the easiest way is to simply reinstall this node?
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    Encryption in Nested Virtualization in VMs the run Proxmox

    is it possible to install Proxmox and enable Nested Virtualization, and on the Nested Virtualization and have 2 Proxmox(Installation Debian Buster) VMs That both are encrypted, ---+Proxmox (on the server - (I prefer the Debian Buster installation)) [installed on Hardware] - -| - -+Proxmox...
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    Debian Service Startup Problems in PROXMOX

    hi, I have a web page service of repository of pdf and word files where the user looks at a list of files and downloads them, the server has characteristics of 250 gb of space and 8 gb of ram and debian 9 virtualized in proxmox 5, the problems it appears that the service stopped working...
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    Downgrade/Download Previous Kernel Versions (Proxmox 6.2)

    Can anyone tell me how to downgrade the kernel version Proxmox uses, and also how to download previous (or even newer) kernels? I am new to this so might not be using the correct terminology, but hopefully you guys know what I mean... Also, is there any list of the previous versions and/or...
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    Proxmox and debian quota / docker size limits

    Good morning all! Here is for some years, I work on a host, Minecraft for the moment. The site is progressing very well, and we are almost ready to launch it. But here I have a problem, I would like to limit the disk space of Minecraft servers. So I have a dedicated server running proxmox...
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    Recover a file from an LXC container that won't start

    One of my debian containers refuses to start .. it may be related to the fact that I lost one of my proxmox server's drives (that kept CT and VM backups and LXC templates...) anyway, the container won't start. I ran lxc-start -n 100 -F -l DEBUG -o /tmp/lxc-100.log and it gave me this output...
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    [SOLVED] Postfix in LXC debian templates

    AFAIK, exim is the debian default MTA. However, proxmox LXC templates for debian come with postfix installed instead of exim. And, most of all, the /etc/mailname is not created and populated at configuration. This breaks the installation or configuration of some packages (like sympa) which rely...
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    [SOLVED] Licensed PVE 6.x on Debian Buster

    I am attempting to install PVE6.x on a custom Debian Buster install, and wanted to avoid having to go through package downgrade hell. Currently I am at the point where I would add the Proxmox repos to Debian, but I cannot use the enterprise repos to do the package installation (no license...
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    Debian 9 don't load services at boot - proxmox 5

    HI i have a strange problem, the boot worked like a charm since several month and now when I reboot the server don't load the service like apache2, cron, mysql etc... I need to enable them by hands. Could you please give me some info how I can find the problem Thanks a lot in advance! ps: if...
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    How to handle ports/firewall with Debian Buster lxc?

    Hi guys I have created a container based on a Debian Buster template to use as a VPN server. The problem I have is that only port 22 is available towards that machine and I'm puzzled on how to solve this (fairly new to Proxmox/containers and Linux is not my strongest point) My Proxmox...