[SOLVED] Complete beginner question - second VM won't start up

positive11

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Hello,

Yesterday I decided to try out Proxmox on Intel NUC NUC6i5.
After installation I deploy single VM running Home Assistant (following this guide - https://community.home-assistant.io/t/installing-home-assistant-os-using-proxmox-7/201835)

Now I want to deploy second VM running Ubuntu Desktop. After I create the VM and press start button, the error bellow appear.

Error: Unknown device type.
can't create interface fwln101i0 - command '/sbin/ip link add name fwln101i0 mtu 1500 type veth peer name fwpr101p0 mtu 1500' failed: exit code 2

kvm: -netdev type=tap,id=net0,ifname=tap101i0,script=/var/lib/qemu-server/pve-bridge,downscript=/var/lib/qemu-server/pve-bridgedown,vhost=on: network script /var/lib/qemu-server/pve-bridge failed with status 512
Use of uninitialized value $tpmpid in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/QemuServer.pm line 5465.
stopping swtpm instance (pid ) due to QEMU startup error
TASK ERROR: start failed: QEMU exited with code 1

Till now I notice that if I remove the NIC from the second VM it can start, but I don't know what I'm doing wrong. i'm using default settings, both VMs are connected to "vmbr0"

screenshot from System > Network
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Use of uninitialized value $tpmpid in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/QemuServer.pm line 5465.
stopping swtpm instance (pid ) due to QEMU startup error
TASK ERROR: start failed: QEMU exited with code 1
This sounds like you have some mismatched packages installed.

Did you install the latest updates?

What is the output if you run apt update?
 
It seams I forget to reboot the server after I run update it, Single reboot of the host fix the issue.
 
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Good to hear. :)

I went ahead and marked the thread as solved. You could do so yourself as well by editing the first post and selecting the prefix in the drop-down menu next to the title. :)