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    [TUTORIAL] Plex + hw transcoding, LXC and Jasper Lake iGPU passthru

    I finally managed to make hw transcoding work with Proxmox and Plex in an LXC container with Jasper Lake CPU. This has always been relatively easy with other hardware, but these Jasper Lake CPU’s (N5105, N6005 etc.) have been causing me headaches previously. But no more! :) (Basically this is a...
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    [SOLVED] NVIDIA Driver 515.57 starting properly

    SOLVED: Reinstall the drivers from scratch and reboot after uninstalling from host and container before installing again. uname -r shows 5.15.53-1-pve Installing 515.57 drivers to GPU passthrough my GTX960 to a Plex container. I am following this guide on youtube...
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    Adding existing hdd´s with media to a plex lxc.

    Hi all, I am fairly new to proxmox, but have set up a small cluster with a couple of vm´s and lxc´s. All of this is installed on a old computer that I use as a server. This computer has 7 disks installed (some are ssds, and some are hdds). 6 of these were used as storage in an ubuntu...
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    SFTP to USB passthrough for VM (Ubuntu / Plex)

    Hi all, I am VERY new to Proxmox. I set it all up only yesterday. I have two VMs working - one is Home Assistant (OS) and the other is Ubuntu 20.04 server. The Ubuntu server is running plex and unifi controller. These work nicely. I have managed to mount an external USB drive which has my media...
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    [SOLVED] Passthrough USB device causes proxmox problems, time out waiting on systemd

    Proxmox Version: 7.1-11 Kernel: Linux 5.13.19-6-pve #1 SMP PVE 5.13.19-14 CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G I have a virtual machine for Plex, I want to pass through a USB TV tuner to the VM. I'm doing this by adding the USB device in the hardware section, using the USB Ven/Dev ID. When I attach the...
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    Alder Lake GVT-d integrated graphics passthrough

    Hello! I am in the process of transferring a series of VMs from an ESXi build onto a new Alder Lake (i9-12900K) build with Proxmox. In particular I am working on getting the integrated Intel graphics passed through to a Debian 11 VM for Plex transcoding. I have been following GVT-g tutorials...
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    Help with UID/GID Mapping Between CTs

    I'm having some trouble mapping the UID/GIDs between two LXC containers: plex and deluge. Here are the configs: Plex CT: # UID mapping, plex uid is 998 lxc.idmap: u 0 100000 998 lxc.idmap: u 998 1234 1 lxc.idmap: u 999 100999 63536 # GID mapping, plex gid is 998 lxc.idmap: g 0 100000 998...
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    Intel Nuc 10 GPU passthrough to LXC for Plex hardware transcoding

    Hi, I've configured the container as follows: arch: amd64 cores: 4 features: nesting=1 hostname: plex memory: 4096 net0: name=eth0,bridge=vmbr0,hwaddr=36:E6:21:5B:00:CE,ip=dhcp,type=veth onboot: 0 ostype: ubuntu rootfs: local-lvm:vm-103-disk-0,size=8G swap: 1024 lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c...
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    Is it better to have a NAS VM or a simple NFS server for my media share for Plex Server in a Proxmox node?

    I am trying to architecture a Plex Media Server inside a Proxmox node, in a very modest way. I know I can set up a NAS to server my files through the network or I could create a very simple NFS VM with NFS sharing capabilities and map the folder to be mounted on the Plex Media Server container...
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    Intel Rocket Lake (11th) Quicksync Passthrough

    Has anyone managed to configure passing through an Intel Rocket Lake (11th gen) IGPU so that Quicksync/Hardware Transcoding is available for Plex? I recently built a new home server and made the mode over to Proxmox and have been super impressed. However, after multiple attempts I still haven't...
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    Looking for advise: zfs should belong to Proxmox or Truenas?

    I have sufficient disks to create an HDD ZFS pool and a SSD ZFS pool, as well as a SSD/NVMe for boot drive. I'd like to install Proxmox as the hypervisor, and run some form of NAS software (TRueNAS or something) and Plex. Looking for advise on how that should be setup, from a storage...
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    Plex inside VM causes Proxmox host to freeze

    Hello, I'm encountering this weird problem where my entire Proxmox host freezes shortly after I start the plexmediaserver Service inside a VM. (It's reproducible) Sometimes the host freezes after a few minutes, sometimes seconds thereafter. Without the plex service running, everything runs...
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    Downgrading Proxmox OS installation 7.0-8 to 6.X

    Hello, Apologies if this topic was covered elsewhere, I just could not seem to find the topic in the search. About a month ago I installed not upgraded, installed fresh Proxmox 7.0 and all was fine until I decided to virtualize a plex server using Ubuntu server 20.04 with my Nvidia 1660 for...
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    USB Passthrough to LXC Plex

    So I started recently with VE 7.0, created LXC and installed ubuntu + Plex. Idea is to use a USB drive connected to the machine to read media files through to Plex For USB passthrough I followed this guide here Then followed this guide to change cgroup What I cannot figure out, is when I go...
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    Need help for lxc intel gpu

    Hi, I use intel i5 10500 to host Proxmox VE 7.0-11. Run vm for openwrt, home-assistant and xpenology, and I want add lxc for Plex and Jellyfin. but I cant let lxc use my UHD Graphics 630 for Plex HWtranscode. on host: root@pve:~# ls -l /dev/dri total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Aug 20...
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    Plex not working - Currently unavailable

    Hello, I am trying to setup Plex on a CentOS 8 VM in Proxmox. If I SSH into the server and go onto localhost I can view that the server is up and have already had files play perfectly. The problem occurs when I am using the native app. I was asking for this on the Plex forum, but they say that...
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    nvidia container runtime in LXC container?

    I'd like to enable hardware-accelerated video transcoding via an Nvidia GPU card for an instance of Plex Media Server running inside PVE's flavor of LXC container. Has anyone been successful in enabling Nvidia GPU pass-through on Proxmox using nvidia-container-runtime? (LXC or KVM, doesn't...
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    Adding Raid 5 Discs

    Im hoping you may be to guide or advise me with the following problem I have. I did have an Open Media Vault (OMV) install with the latest version using initially for Plex for my media and was hoping also to use for VR as well. That didn't work as i hoped for so now have installed Proxmox with...
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    Poor zfs read(suspected) performance, dlna streaming unusable

    Dear all, Sorry for an ambiguous title and thread as i have just put up an itx machine to try on the proxmox platform, was aniticipating a great upgrade from my old HP microserver Gen7 (ESXi) to the proxmox LXC container world. but resulting in a confused and disappointing week due to my lack...
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    BUG: Unable to handle kernel paging request

    Hi, I've started using Proxmox about 6 months ago and have been loving it. Last night, I found that my Plex container was not responding. All other VMs and containers were fine (only 2 others on the machine). I was able to login via SSH and found the following in the journal: Jan 13 01:24:13...

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