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    Question about LXC and security

    hi I plan to install some internet facing services on LXC, and I 'm reviewing the security. The scenario is the worst case: the attacker has RCE with root privileges on the LXC. will he be contained there? The LXC is of course unprivileged. I'm not considering any 0days of the kernel/OS...
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    No network on LXCs

    Hello I have no idea what happened, but my LXCs are no longer getting any IP addresses. My VMs are getting IPs just fine and are fully online, its just the LXCs. I have a Unifi UDM as my DHCP server. Here is my hosts /etc/network/interfaces root@rdu-pve01:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces #...
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    cannot migrate containers from storage type 'lvmthin' to 'zfspool'

    I have a Proxmox with LVM thin (datathinpool), I want to migrate all the container to a new server using ZFS (vmdata) But when I try to do it I got: # pct migrate 120 lokol --restart --target-storage vmdata 2025-01-16 13:53:22 shutdown CT 120 2025-01-16 13:53:26 use dedicated network address...
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    New install advices: multiple LxC or single with multiple docker containers for mqtt-zigbee2mqtt-HA?

    Hello all, I am a newbie in the Proxmox world or with VMs generally (and Linux generally), and would like to know if there are some advices to follow now before setting all in a wrong way. Here is my project with an old laptop as server (8 GB RAM, dual core): MQTT, Zigbee2MQTT and HA...
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    Move LXC container to different storage type

    Hello, I am in the process of migrating some LXC containers from one host to another where I have different types of storage. The source host where the container is located has ZFS storage and the destination host has XFS (LVM). How should I proceed? I have tried to make a copy of the...
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    OpenVPN on LXC

    Hi there all, A few questions onto running OpenVPN within an LXC container on PVE. - are the information's provided here still accurate for the latest PVE builds (8.3.x) ? https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/OpenVPN_in_LXC - on the same host, I'm passing through a /dev/ppp device, simply through...
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    Tvheadend on LXC container not detect TV tuner

    Hello, I have created an LXC container for run Tvheadend. Config file: arch: amd64 cores: 2 features: nesting=1 hostname: TVHeadend memory: 2048 net0: name=eth0,bridge=vmbr0,gw=192.168.0.1,hwaddr=,ip=192.168.0.7/24,type=veth ostype: debian rootfs: local-lvm:vm-107-disk-0,size=8G searchdomain...
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    LXC Container directories owned by nobody nogroup

    Hello all Been banging my head a bit and I know there are 100s of threads, I've read most I can get hold of. My issue is not the bind mount, that works. Issue is that /lost+found, /proc and /sys inside the container is owned by nobody nogroup after all my fiddling. Figured I'd ignore the...
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    Cannot migrate lxc to other nodes in cluster

    I want to migrate a lxc to another proxmox node in the same cluster. I get the following error: could not get migration ip: no IP address configured on local node for network 'fc00::81/29' TASK ERROR: command '/usr/bin/ssh -e none -o 'BatchMode=yes' -o 'HostKeyAlias=proxmox2' -o...
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    Proxmox install scripts for ipxe-buildweb, rom-o-matic and ipxe-simple (ipxe firmware build manager web UI)

    Hi, As I experiment with iPXE, an open source network bootloader firmware, I have to rebuild it with HTTPS support that is missing from the official releases. https://boot.ipxe.org/ These scripts are meant to be directly pasted into the proxmox console and will create an LXC container ready...
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    RAM Disk in LXC not showing usage in PVE

    Hey, been working on setting up a new PVE lab at home for multiple use cases incl. finally getting off my Windows Plex Server setup. I have my initial basic cluster up and running with two nodes (one more to come soon) and been testing all sorts of LXC's and VM's to ensure I understand all I am...
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    Block device (btrfs) in unprivileged LXC container

    I have a HDD connected to my PVE host, that holds data in various btrfs subvolumes. I would like to access (and ideally manage) them from an unprivileged LXC container. After reading through several documentation pages and forum posts I attempted the following: Create a "lxc_mount" group on the...
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    LXC vs. Docker

    Hallo, ich habe nun meine ersten Gehversuche auf Proxmox hinter mir und bin erstmal sehr zufrieden, einfach auch, weil es funktioniert. Aktuell laufen bei mir auf meienr Synology einige Docker-Container. Diese Dienste möchte ich sukzessive nach Proxmox umziehen. Ich habe nun einen LXC...
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    [SOLVED] Help running homarr in proxmox container (lxc)

    Hi I'm new here I want to ask if I can set up Homarr directly in a Proxmox container (lxc) - and if anyone has a link please share
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    Kubernetes and unprivileged LXC container

    Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to install k8s in an unprivileged LXC container? I have seen a lot of documentations but with a privileged LXC. Thank you for your help.
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    Bug? no swap in restored LXC Debian

    I restored a Debian LXC with xorg from a Qotom firewall appliance to a Beelink EQR6 mini-pc, and the original has swap while the restored LXC does not. Have tried resizing swap in PVE GUI and with ' pct set 101 --swap 384 ' and the like, and the container still has 0 swap Beelink PVE 8.3.1...
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    Concurrent cloning from LXC template using terraform provider

    Hi all, I am trying to clone multiple instance of one of my LXC templates using Terraform (Telmate Provider) (as I am always doing with VMs) but with the containers, I am getting this lock issue as PVE is not capable to clone multiple containers from the same template at once. It throws the...
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    LXC starten nichtmehr nach Stromausfall

    Guten Morgen, nach einem Stromausfall konnte erst der gesamte Host nicht starten, "failed to initalize Ramdisk". Nach einigen Reboots startete das System aber wieder. Jetzt ist es so, dass die eine VM auf dem Host normal gestartet ist, die LXC Container aber leider nicht. Ich habe per SSH...
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    Jellyfin + HW transcoding with Intel's QSV + unprivileged LXC

    Hello I wondered if anybody had the same problem as me. The problem I have is a blank green screen when streaming on a device that requires transcoding. Everything works and checks out like it says in the Jellyfin documentation, but I only get a blank green screen and only hear the audio. I...
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    I/O errors in LXC containers on ZFS. Backups fail, requiring restore.

    I've been chasing a ghost since upgrading to proxmox 8.3 (correlation is not causation, so I can't point to 8.3 just yet). Random LXC containers start to exhibit i/o errors. This is only "noticed" when a nightly backup runs as it then errors, but fails on those specific LXC's. The storage is...

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