Can not create CT from a downloaded Template

[Christian Bee]

Hello, this is my first post and i hope i picked up the right forum.
I installed ProxMox 3.0-23 and downloaded the Ubuntu 12.04 server edition and created a bunch of VMs with it.
Its running good and stable.
Now, a few months later, i downloaded the CentOS 6 template, but i can't create a CT or VM from a template, because its not listed.
In fact, none of my templates are listed anymore.

 

[m.ardito]

Hi, too little info to solve this but:

from web gui select the running CT, look under its options

you will find "storage" field, it should be filled filled with a storage name where the original template was: is it still there, and you uploaded the centos template there?

check that storage on the gui, look for containers.
check also storage definition (web gui : datacenter > storage > storagename EDIT), if "templates" is still enabled for it...

Marco

 

[Christian Bee]

Okay, i made a mistake here. I have running VMs not CTs.
When i look at the options of my VM, there is no storage field.
I created the VMs by copying an existing template i created (and there is also no "storage" field under "options").

In the Storage View, i see 1 storage. There is a button templates. There is also an empty list. When i upload an ISO file, or download some existing template, its not listed there.

 

[m.ardito]

Okay, i made a mistake here. I have running VMs not CTs.
When i look at the options of my VM, there is no storage field.
I created the VMs by copying an existing template i created (and there is also no "storage" field under "options").

yes those are CT options only...
can you go to pve command line as root?

if yes, try

#ls /mnt/pve/<storagename>

and post the output here

(beware is case sensitive)

Marco

 

[Christian Bee]

The /mnt folder is empty

 

[m.ardito]

and what about /var/lib/vz/template/cache ?

Marco

 

[Christian Bee]

root@Proxmox-VE ~ # ls -la /var/lib/vz/template/cache/
total 498M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 21 08:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Jul 30 22:47 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 174M Oct 17 2012 centos-5-standard_5.8-1_i386.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200M Oct 17 2012 centos-6-standard_6.3-1_i386.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 125M Oct 17 2012 ubuntu-12.04-standard_12.04-1_i386.tar.

 

[wahmed]

The /mnt folder is empty

/mnt should not be empty. It should at least have /mnt/pve/.
Seems to me your /mnt/pve got unmounted somehow or cluster lost sync. Thats probably why you are not seeing any storage. May be a reboot? Do you have other nodes in the cluster? Do they have /mnt/pve?

 

[Christian Bee]

I rebooted that machine several times yes. No nodes. After reboot (did it 1 minute ago) /mnt is still empty.

 

[wahmed]

I rebooted that machine several times yes. No nodes. After reboot (did it 1 minute ago) /mnt is still empty.

What do you have under /var/lib/vz/ ?

 

[Christian Bee]

root@Proxmox-VE /mnt # ls -la /var/lib/vz
total 32K
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Jul 30 22:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 37 root root 4.0K Jul 30 22:48 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Mar 27 2013 dump
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4.0K Nov 20 19:33 images
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 23 11:03 lock
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jul 30 23:31 private
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jul 30 23:31 root
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Jul 30 22:47 template

 

[Christian Bee]

root@Proxmox-VE /mnt # ls -la /var/lib/vz
total 32K
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Jul 30 22:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 37 root root 4.0K Jul 30 22:48 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Mar 27 2013 dump
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4.0K Nov 20 19:33 images
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 23 11:03 lock
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jul 30 23:31 private
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jul 30 23:31 root
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Jul 30 22:47 template

No one ? thinking about reinstalling, which would be a pain in the running system.

 

[Christian Bee]

No one ? thinking about reinstalling, which would be a pain in the running system.

Upgraded Proxmox with

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

And now it works. I dont know why but that doesn't matter at all. Have a nice day