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    Automatically turn off idle screen with LXC GPU passthrough on LXC restart

    I am using GPU passthrough to LXC on proxmox running on a laptop and don't want the screen always on so I set `consoleblank=30`: ``` # /etc/kernel/cmdline root=ZFS=rpool/ROOT/pve-1 boot=zfs intel_iommu=on iommu=pt consoleblank=30 ``` This seems to work correctly without any LXCs running. The...
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    After updating to 9.0.10, OpenEuler containers fail to start

    Hello! After attempting to update from 9.0.6 to 9.0.10, OpenEuler containers (openeuler-24.03-default_20250507_amd64.tar.xz) fail to start. The error message is as follows: root@pve:~# pct start 106 --debug run_buffer: 571 Script exited with status 1 lxc_init: 845 Failed to run...
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    UNAS Pro + NFS + LXC - How to do it "right"?

    Hi, I am building out a few LXC containers that need read/write access to files served from a UNAS Pro and am looking for guidance. The containers are all unprivileged and I plan on mounting them using Proxmox and then binding them to the containers. My concern is how to handle uid/gids properly...
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    Best practices deploying Docker containers on LXC with multiple network devices?

    I deployed an Ubuntu 24.04 LXC with multiple network devices (eth0, eth15, eth20, eth25...eth60) each on it's own vlan. In the LXC I created Docker macvlan networks and attached each to it's corresponding network device so I can setup various containers on different vlans. However, each...
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    [TUTORIAL] ChatGPT Codex in a lxc container

    Hi all, Yesterday I was busy to install Codex from ChatGPT(only for pro users) but had a hard time to make it work but found a easy way to make it work and that, I want to share. With Codex you can give tasks or ask things of, in my case, your lxc container on the cli prompt. I am running...
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    LXC Containers fail to start

    Hi all, My containers have stopped working for some reason. Not sure if anyone can give advice on how to fix? run_buffer: 571 Script exited with status 25 lxc_init: 845 Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "100" __lxc_start: 2034 Failed to initialize container "100" TASK ERROR...
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    Proxmox UID GID mapping multiple users LXC

    Hello, I've seen several webpages about UID mapping and GID mapping in a unpriviledged container but I do not unstand how to map multiple users and groups in the conf file. I have 4 users, root, user1, user2 and user3. UID/GID are 0, 1000, 1001, 1002, 1003 In the Debian fileserver, I have...
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    LXC No DNS and Can't Ping Gateway

    Hello all, I've recently started trying to move some services into LXCs, but I am having issues with that appear to be DNS related. I have the Proxmox GUI sitting on a Linux Bridge that is tagged with VLAN 40. I also have several VMs that get tagged for VLAN 40, as they have managment consoles...
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    Systemd-creds errors in Debian 13 LXC containers

    I've upgraded the host and one of my LXC containers to Debian 13, and now I'm facing the following error: many systemd services in the container are failing with `243/CREDENTIALS`, which appears to be a problem with systemd-creds inside the container. It's not a new issue, apparently, just much...
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    [SOLVED] LXCs won't start

    Hello, After recent debian 13.1 update in my LXCs, not a single one starts after it is powered off or rebooted It fails with this error when manually started: run_buffer: 571 Script exited with status 25 lxc_init: 845 Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "1000" __lxc_start: 2034...
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    Seeking help with NVIDIA GPU passthrough to unprivileged LXC containers on Proxmox 9.0.6

    Hi everyone, I'm trying to set up GPU acceleration for my unprivileged LXC containers (Ollama, Plex, Whisper) on a Proxmox 9.0.6 host with a GTX 1080. I've followed the standard guides for shared GPU support, including enabling nesting and configuring the device mounts and cgroups in the LXC...
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    Forward all udev properties to container

    I'm trying to run Automatic Ripping Machine in an LXC, but am having a problem because it's using `pyudev` to look at device properties, and the `ID_*` properties it's looking for are missing from the forwarded devices. Here is the relevant lxc config: lxc.mount.auto: sys:rw...
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    Debian 13 (Trixie) LXC Container Image for Proxmox 8 and Proxmox 9

    (not my creation) See: https://gyptazy.com/blog/debian-13-trixie-final-lxc-container-image-for-proxmox8-proxmox-9/ Also see this thread about Debian 13 and LXC in Proxmox: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/debian-13-lxc-template.169469/ Fabián Rodríguez | Le Goût du Libre Inc. | Montreal...
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    [SOLVED] IP Settings not applying to new LXCs

    Hi, SOLVED - LXC is privileged as per Jellyfin's documentation which disables nesting by default. Adding nesting resolves the issue. I'm trying out Proxmox for the first time and everything was going well but all of a sudden IP settings have stopped working for new LXCs (I haven't tried VMs)...
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    LXC firewalls with nftables on Proxmox 9

    Hello everyone, I have just setup a fresh Proxmox 9 install, added a Container and started firewalling the system. I enabled the firewall for the datacenter, the host and the container. Everything works fine except for the container firewall. I can see from the "nft list ruleset" output that the...
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    pveam update fails on turnkeylinux

    Trying to update my list of templates. Got the same result on PVE 8.4.1 and on 9.0.5 Log output of /var/log/pveam.log: 2025-08-21 10:25:18 start download http://download.proxmox.com/images/aplinfo-pve-9.dat.asc 2025-08-21 10:25:19 download finished: 200 OK 2025-08-21 10:25:19 start download...
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    Newbie Help with Intel N150 iGPU Passthrough Please

    Hi, I'm new to Proxmox and Linux and trying to set up Jellyfin in an LXC on a GMKTec G3 Plus with Intel N150 CPU. I was following a guide which said to install the "intel-media-va-driver-non-free" driver, but this didn't work. I then found another thread here which said to use...
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    Lack of IPv6 Support

    Could better IPv6 support please be prioritized. The change needed to make it work with Ubuntu containers is very minor. It's one setting in one file that PVE overrides to the wrong value. IPv6AcceptRA in /etc/systemd/network/eth0.network needs to be true not false. IPv6AcceptRA = true...
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    unsupported debian version '14'

    Hi there, I've just installed Immich via the community helper scripts, and it runs fine until I restart the LXC. Then when I run with `pct start 100 --debug` I get this: produced output: unsupported debian version '14' Any help would be amazing! Thank you
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    [SOLVED] Debian 13 LXC networking.service failed

    I'm trying to figure out why on an older debian LXC (now version 12, but it has had atleast 2 major updates) the network.service comes back failed after bootup ug 08 10:34:24 metricsbox systemd[1]: Starting networking.service - Raise network interfaces... Aug 08 10:34:24 metricsbox...