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    [SOLVED] Migrate a CT from OpenVZ Virtuozzo 7 to a Proxmox PVE LXC

    As you maybe know, VMware was not the only hypervisor to change his business Model. OpenVZ Virtuozzo 7 was the last free open release of Virtuozzo. For guys ( and girls ;) ) who need to migrate their OpenVZ Virtuozzo 7 CTs to the LXC, I decided to create some scripts and documentation. I put...
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    Help moving ZFS storage.

    Due to a lot of drive issues I decided to downgrade the size of my ZFS vdev. I currently have 3 12TB drives in ZFS Raid-Z1. I plan to switch to 3 3TB drive ZFS Raid-Z1. I have about 5 containers/vms that I would like to keep. the rest can go. My system doesn't have the sata connections...
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    Error migrating VM from one Proxmox Server to another server

    Hello everyone, I'm trying to use the online migration feature of the Proxmox Datacenter Manager. The VM is currently using a ZFS pool in server one and trying to change that to nfs in server two, but got this error: 2025-09-03 06:56:17 ERROR: online migrate failure - failed to write...
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    [SOLVED] Unable to migrate containers

    Hello all! This is the first time I've used the migrate feature. I have two nodes in a cluster, and I was looking to move all containers from Node 1 to Node 2. I used the bulk migration option, and it migrated more than half of the containers that I have. However, for some reason, there are a...
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    Win7 migrated from hyperv boot only first time, then bsod

    Hello, I need to migrate two W7 hyperv machines to proxmox. I tried several ways to import them into proxmox: (proxmox wizard included in veeam, vmdk export, vhdx export). Then I configured the VM and imported the disks on the proxmox server. The first machine presents no problems. On the...
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    online migrate failure - block job (mirror) error: Source and target image have different sizes

    I just ran into an issue trying to live migrate a VM; source and target are zfs, version is 8.4.1 Error message: online migrate failure - block job (mirror) error: drive-scsi0: Source and target image have different sizes The disk was created by importing from a Hyper-V vhd image, that turns...
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    Issues migrating VirtualBox Windows Server 2008R2 VM

    I'm trying to migrate a VirtualBox VM into ProxMox VE, and could use some help in figuring out how to get this accomplished. VM is a Windows Server 2008R2. Before migrating, I removed the VB Guest Additions and ran the MergeIDE.bat file. I also changed the NIC to an E1000. I converted the hard...
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    Migrating Proxmox HA-Cluster with Ceph to new IP Subnet (Reup)

    Hey there, I am in the process of migrating my entire cluster, consisting of three nodes, to a new subnet. Old addresses: 10.10.20.11/24, 10.10.20.12/24, 10.10.20.13/24 New addresses: 10.10.0.10/24, 10.10.0.11/24, 10.10.0.12/24 I have already updated all necessary files, following a...
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    Moving the VM's 1 Node to another with ZFS

    A cluster with 3 Nodes with ZFS Storage on Each node. To Utilize the Maximum storage opted for ZFS. Question: Is there any possibilities to MOVE the VM's from 1 Node to another, may be in Between can be have a NFS. NOTE: Tried with [VM --> DiskAction --> Move Storage]; able to move the...
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    Migrate VM to Another Node with Smaller Disk Size

    Hello everyone, We've recently set up a Proxmox cluster with two nodes. The first node is now nearly full, and we'd like to move some of our development VMs to the second node to free up space. Some of these VMs have disks sized at 100GB, but the actual used space is much lower (e.g...
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    Feature Request: Migrate VM even with PCI Device entries

    I can understand why there might well be a reason to not allow migration of a VM if the target host might not support the same PCI Device pass-through entries, but it should at least be an option you can click saying you understand the implications, or be able to indicate that a target node is...
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    migrating from 7.4-19 to 8.3.4 fails with error code

    When clicking migrate (offline or online, does not matter) after a few seconds of a Loading spinner I get an alert alert : api error (status = 400: api error (status = 596: )) Both my remotes are configured, detected and listed under remotes. I am using direct ip connection from the DCM to...
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    Migrating a VM Between Two Proxmox Servers from Different Providers

    We currently have a dedicated server from OVH where we installed Proxmox and set up several VMs, including: pfSense VM Production VMs Development VMs Our issue is that we’re reaching the local storage limit on this server, we’re considering purchasing another dedicated server from a different...
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    [SOLVED] Migrate VM's from Ver 5 to 8.3 - For Windows 11 upgrade!

    Yes that is a bit of a gap, but as a home user I have not really had a need to switch things up, until the whole Windows 10 thing. I have two Windows 10 VM's that I would like to move from my old Proxmox Server and to my new one. Both VM's will fit on a flash drive to move from one to another...
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    [SOLVED] Migrate VM across Clusters with Ceph not possible

    If I try to migrate a VM (Online or Offline) from one Cluster to another. It will not work. Both Clusters use Ceph. But if i put the OS Disk on local-zfs and then migrate it to the other cluster it works. Error from Ceph to Ceph: 2024-12-23 12:57:56 remote: started tunnel worker...
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    [SOLVED] Live migration fails, but works after first offline migration

    Hello, I have a very strange problem. I have two PVE 8.3.0 nodes with AMD Ryzen CPU's, 64 GB RAM, 1 TB NVMe with ZFS and 2x 2,5 GBit NIC's on each node. All VM's replicate from node1 to node2 every 15 minutes. Node1 is the primary node, node2 was just added. When I try to live migrate a VM...
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    Remote migrate error - Insecure dependency in unlink

    I'm trying to migrate a vm from one cluster to another. The call gets accepted and a 'Migrate' task gets created on the source. It does error out with 'Error: migration problems' A qmtunnel does get created on the target cluster. It spins for a moment and then stops with status=ok. I...
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    Migrating Manjaro Linux VM to bare metal

    I have a VM which is running my daily driver Manjaro Linux which I would like to decouple from Proxmox and have it run on a smaller device. Doing this mainly for energy saving reasons as the origin machine is really hard on power and it doesn't have to run all the time otherwise. The smaller...
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    Move Windows VM with TPM State disk

    Hello, I have one two node cluster with both local zfspool both in proxmox ve 8.2.4. I have one VM with 1 vDisk on a zfspool and one TPM state disk on local. When I try to migrate it to the second node, there is an error : ERROR: storage migration for 'local:107/vm-107-disk-0.raw' to storage...
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    VMware Migration nach Proxmox

    Ich brauche dringend eure Hilfe ! Ich bin derzeit dabei Proxmox für meine Arbeit zu testen und bin gerade beim migrieren angekommen. Was genau gibt man in dem Fenster ein, wo nach der IP/Hostname bzw. den Anmeldedaten gefragt wird? So wie ich das verstanden habe soll da die IP vom Storage...