qemu

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    qemu-guest-agent shutdown

    Hey All, I'm working on a project to integrate the qemu-guest-agent service into a RHEL_9_4 based OS in my company. As part of the development process of this project, I downloaded the qemu-kvm 8.2.0-12 rpm from the redhat package manager - link After bringing the untainted package I modified it...
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    QEMU guest agent not running

    Hello I have 2 VMs running on my Proxmox. I scheduled a task to reboot them weekly. However, one of them is having this issue: It doesn't receive the signal to shutdown, but I've already verified that the QEMU agent is running. Also tried reinstalling, but the issue persists. Any ideas?
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    comment, name, or custom identifier for VM block devices?

    Hi all!! I’d like a mechanism of more intuitively identifying from within proxmox’s webui (and possibly other places as well?) the relationship between a block device and its vm-scoped-use by this, i mean a label-construct that would allow for hinting to future-me...
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    "virt-customize" does not install qemu-guest-agent on qcow2 image

    I cannot get qemu-guest-agent installed on the debian-12-generic-amd64.qcow2 image. I'm trying to follow the instructions from this tutorial and code. Here are the steps I'm following and the outcome: First, I get the image using this script: ./bin/import-cloud-image...
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    bridgeless network for QEMU? (ie. only TAP, and manual/hookscript connections to host/other VMs)

    I'm looking for a solution to drop the need for intermediate bridges for a corner/edge case where I need the VMs to have "direct" P2P links ONLY, and typically to the host too. Reason: I want to use OpenFabric as a IGP, and it requires P2P links only , ie, only 2 parties to a link. As I add...
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    Rate limit on a Qemu KVM VM

    Hello, To have a rate-limit on the bandwidth of a VPS limited to 1 Gigabit/second, is it correct to set the rate limit to 125? Thanks!
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    QEMU Agent showing disk usage for memory

    It looks like QEMU agent is displaying disk usage instead of memory for some reason. Every time I install a package it just increases along with disk usage. Anyone every seen anything like this or know how to fix it? As you can see I am only using 4-500MB of memory but disk usage is lining up...
  8. t.lamprecht

    QEMU 9.2 available on pvetest and pve-no-subscription as of now

    There is a new QEMU 9.2 available in the pvetest and pve-no-subscription repository. After internally testing QEMU 9.1 for a couple of months, and then 9.2 for a couple of weeks, we decided to skip a separate 9.1 update and move directly to QEMU 9.2 as the default version included in the next...
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    How much does constant backing up to PBS affect the VM?

    Hi! I have a main proxmox node with 5-10 VMs. I also have a remote proxmox node with PBS installed as a VM. I want to create some kind of disaster recovery site with this remote proxmox node. My plan is to take backup of the VMs every minute and send to PBS. Most of the VMs are static so...
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    Any way to adjust Proxmox Dynamic Memory? (virtio_balloon)

    I have virtio ballooning enabled in a few Windows Hosts that have allocated significant amounts of memory (64-128GB), however, most of that memory is not needed 99% of the running time, only for one off weekly tasks. I would like to reclaim that memory, but it seems that the way that Proxmox...
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    [API] Call QEMU Agent error and wrong information

    [PS Script] My code: https://github.com/.../04054a709c8c95.../proxmox-api-problem API: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/api-viewer/index.html#/nodes/{node}/qemu/{vmid}/agent/get-osinfo try { $vmAgentResponse = Invoke-RestMethod -URI $vmAgentUri -Headers $Headers...
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    High Latency with Intel i226-v NIC on Proxmox Passthrough to VM

    Hello everyone, I'm having a tough time with my home network configuration and could use some help troubleshooting a high-latency issue. I'm experiencing significant latency on my Intel i226-v PCIe NIC when passing it through to an OPNsense VM on Proxmox. Here’s my setup and what I've tried so...
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    kvm runs in user.slice cgroup instead of qemu.slice, flooding syslog

    Running a VM via the shell (to institute additional command line parameters) results in the syslog being flooded with qmeventd events like the following: qmeventd[1038]: error parsing vmid for 3371241: no matching qemu.slice cgroup entry qmeventd[1038]: could not get vmid from pid 3371241...
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    Proxmox API QEMU VM Creation Issue

    class VpsCommand extends Command { protected $signature = 'vps'; protected $description = 'Create a new VPS as a Test'; private $data = [ 'cores' => 2, 'memory' => 4, 'disk' => 10 ]; public function handle(): void { $vpsId = 10001...
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    [QEMU] Using VirGL with vhost-user-gpu in a Guest/VM?

    Hi, I have been reading about vhost-user and specifically vhost-user-gpu, which is used alongside VirGL/Venus on QEMU to provide "pieces"/"slices" of a GPU from the host to Guests/VMs. The problem with this is that using `dpdk`, this is running in user-space instead of kernel space, which is a...
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    Technology to reduce core 2 core latency.

    With more modern hardware, core 2 core latency can become an issue. Check this software if you want to measure your CPU. https://github.com/nviennot/core-to-core-latency This is an issue, as just running on the "wrong" core combination, will slow down your software. This will become...
  17. t.lamprecht

    QEMU 9.0 available as of now

    There's a new QEMU 9.0 available on the no-subscription repository. Internal testing for that version started with the release candidates over two months ago, and our engineers could contribute several complex fixes to the stable release. Today our QEMU 9.0 package has been made available on the...
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    Risc-V emulation on top of x64 (using QEMU)

    Hello everyone. I just had a few question about Risc-V emulation on proxmox using qemu. The package qemu-system-misc provides the binary /usr/bin/qemu-system-riscv64 that allows for emulation of riscv64 if i'm not mistaken. Problem is apparently this package isn't the one used by proxmox, there...
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    Is there a QEMU guest agent for macOS?

    I installed macOS in a VM on Proxmox 8.2.2, and I want to use copy/paste between my main computer and the VM. Is there a QEMU guest agent for macOS available?
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    Hyper-V Container import to Proxmox

    Hallo zusammen, ich versuche nun seit geraumer Zeit meinen Hyper-V Container in Proxmox zu importieren ich habe folgendes Video befolgt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvpQCk-8NKU jedoch kommt bei mir bei Minute 7.02 dieser Command geht bei mir nicht da erscheint folgender Fehlercode...