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    Re-adding storage drives to a new proxmox installation

    Good Afternoon, I completely reinstalled proxmox to version 8.2.2 and Kernel version 6.8.4-2-pve, I have 3 drives that I want to re-add to this version: - ZFS Pool called BACKUPS - Directory called ISOIMAGES - Directory called VM-STORAGE Can someone help me out as to the steps I need to take to...
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    [SOLVED] removing ghost from previous node - HOWTO?

    Hi folks, I am trying to revive an old proxmox machine. Thanks to the help of the forum I have already been able to rename and move a couple of vm's, and upgrade to debian bullseye and upgrade proxmox from version 5.x to 7.4-18. So far so good. At the moment I'm withheld from creating...
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    [SOLVED] LVM over iSCSI: VG is missing on new node.

    I want to build a small cluster with a QNAP NAS as iSCSI storage. Node1 was installed, NAS connectivity with multipath works, a LUN created, a LVM over iSCSI created. Node 2 came online and found the LUN and the LVM, and VMs could move from Node1 to Node2 and back. I now installed Node3 (already...
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    Unable to boot second Windows VM (GPU passthrough)

    TLDR: I have 1 working Windows 11 VM with GPU passthrough. Tried to create a new VM with same config but the new one doesn't boot. About 2 years ago I created a Windows 11 VM with GPU passthrough (Followed every possible blog/thread out there to get it working) and I've been using it since...
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    F5 BigIP wants SMBIOS 32

    I just transfered a 3-host farm to proxmox from ovirt, and am trying to get a F5 BigIP VE to run in the new Proxmox 8.2.2 environment. I've been told that an error I'm receiving after the BigIP boots and attempts license registration was resolved in KVM-only environments with telling the...
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    [SOLVED] Is there a way to disable cluster while it's not in use?

    Hi all, I am planning to only use cluster for moving CT/VM between server when needed; there is no reason for me to turn on all servers 24/7 for a home lab. Is there a way to disable clusters while nodes aren't in use? it seems like PVE gets quite a bit of errors of fetching each node after I...
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    [SOLVED] rpool/root/pve-1 taking up entire disk

    Something happened that caused my proxmox install drive to completely fill up and run out of space causing my server to be unusable, can't login to the webui, start any CTs or VMs or do pretty much anything else. Luckily I can still ssh into the server so they my be hope yet to fix it but I...
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    [SOLVED] Is it possible disable/ prevent fetching datastores?

    Hi all, I only need to backup once a month through PBS; Is it possible disable/ prevent fetching datastores? the syslog generates a lot of error when PBS is down. (pve pvestatd[1165]: backup: error fetching datastores - 500 Can't connect to (No route to host)) Thanks, Wing
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    [SOLVED] How to turn on SSD emulation on existing vm that is not trim enable?

    Hi all, How to turn on SSD emulation on existing vm that is not trim enable? Thanks, Wing
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    [SOLVED] Qemu-Img Convert 5 qcow2 disks my VM to one vmdk

    Dear Colleagues, I've Proxmox VM with 5 additional disks (vm-118-disk-0.qcow2, vm-118-disk-1.qcow2,vm-118-disk-2.qcow3, vm-118-disk-3.qcow2, vm-118-disk-4.qcow2) How can I convert it to vmdk (vm118.vmdk) ? My steps, I tried to use the next command into shell Proxmox 7.2.3 : 1. qemu-img...
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    Proxmox shuts down

    Hello Proxmox, My Proxmox server suddenly goes offline with all its vm's... This is really unwanted because it causes all my services to go DOWN. Where can I check for the logs regarding the abrupt end of its reachability?
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    clocksource on SeaBios vs UEFI

    I have a Intel N100 16GB PC (4 cpu) running some fedora 40 guests. Both use host cpu type One proxmox guest (UEFI) is reporting some clock instability trying to use tsc & throws a few events in dmesg, ending up with hpet . kvm-clock isn't available Another guest (Seabios) has no such issues...
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    Bios Settings Not Saving After Power Loss

    We had an issue with a defective UPS which caused a power outage. We have a 3 node cluster running 8.1. After the power loss, one of the nodes bios settings changed to the defaults. This enabled secure boot. When I disable secure boot and save the settings, the settings don't save when the...
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    1st time user | Bus Error when installing Proxmox

    Trying to install Proxmox VE 8.2 baremetal on a: P350 Tiny Workstation (ThinkStation) - Type 30EG, i7 11700T 8Core 16 GB Ram DDR4 Qaudro P1000 Im receiving the following error when installing with GUI or text. ( see attached ) text installer: command 'systemd-id128 new' failed - got signal 7...
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    two new installations of Proxmox VE 8.2-1 stuck at "Loading initial ramdisk ..."

    I have two old Acer notebooks that I occasionally use for homelab. Today I went to install Proxmox VE 8.2-1 from the ISO proxmox-ve_8.2-1.iso (SHA256 = d99d182a0df4ba94c27668d3e33d14cc286d775a7bdf571a86c24ea522009e93) and tried several times, on both notebooks, always with the same result...
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    PPPoE UTM VM

    Hallo, ich bin dabei eine Sophos UTM VM von einem ESXi auf einen Proxmox zu migrieren. Die LAN NIC funktionieren, was nicht geht ist das PPPoE DSL Interface welches über VLAN angebunden ist. Weder Status noch link funktionieren. Ich habe via MTU Size 1492, verschiedene NIC Treiber (Virtuo...
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    AMD iGPU passthrough won't work

    Hello, I have a trigkey mini pc with the following specs: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon graphics 24GB ram 512GB ssd my problem is i can't get the integrated GPU to passthrough. I have all the drivers and guest tools installed but nothing shows on my monitor but when i check device manager i get...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox 8 with Windows Server 2022 continual BSOD and disk corruption

    Hey all just new to Proxmox and have my hands on 2 x HPE DL360 G10 and a HPE MSA2040 SAS array. Took a while but got the 2 nodes up and running with multipath to the MSA, bit of a pain TBH. But my issues is i'm installed Server 2022 onto the Proxmox nodes, but about 7 out of 10 times creating...
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    Help with WiFi configuration for a LXC

    For context: I purchased a WiFi nic for a pfSense VM or OpenWRT LXC and my idea was to use a pci passthrough, I made sure that my cpu was capable of IOMMU but I didn’t check my motherboard and now I know it’s not capable. The nic works perfectly there are no driver issues. I only want to know...
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    [SOLVED] automating with bpg/proxmox; How to find URL and checksum of LXC images?

    Howdy, folks. I'm trying to populate my proxmox servers' LXC templates with the bpg/proxmox Terraform provider. Pulling from Debian's site, that would look something like this: resource "proxmox_virtual_environment_download_file" "debian-12-amd64-lxc" { content_type = "vztmpl"...