Missing command line tools

[Thomas Schmid]

Hello All,
I often found solutions for my 'proxmox' problems in searching this forum and perhaps doing some googling. But now I didn't find a suitable solution for my current problem.

I wanted to test openwrt as a virtual machine by starting an x86 image I downloaded from the openwrt download site. The first step should be to import the image into the proxmox filesystem. So I thought that 'qm importdisk <vmid> <source> <storage> [OPTIONS]' would be the command that will do the job.
Then I found out, that this command isn't known on my ProxmoxVE Node.... ?
And I searched the wiki for other command line tools and tested ....

# for prog in qm vzps pvectl vzctl vztop vzlist user_beancounters vzdump vzrestore qmrestore pvecm
> do
> which $prog
> done
/usr/bin/vzdump
/usr/bin/pvecm

which shows me, that the commands 'qm, vzps, pvectl, vzctl, vztop, vzlist, user_beancounters, vzrestore and qmrestore' are missing! ???
My guess was to install qemu-utils where I expected those tools to find, but this would have the consequence of uninstalling my proxmox environment...

Now I need help to figure out, how I can get this tools back to my node. I basically installed Proxmox VE 5.X on an existing Debian Stretch, because I wanted to configure my harddisks as raid1 pairs. Later I updated to Proxmox 6.X and Debian Buster with no problem following the instructions in the wiki.

I didn't know, where I lost this tools. Can someone give a hint on solving my problem, please?

regards
Thomas

 

[dietmar]

# apt install proxmox-ve

 

[Thomas Schmid]

Hi Dietmar,
thanks for your reply.
This is the command line output:

apt install proxmox-ve
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut.
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig
proxmox-ve ist schon die neueste Version (6.0-2).
0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert.

Seams like nothing happened....

 

[dietmar]

So packages seems to be installed correctly.

Please note that newer version do not have tools like vzctl (we do not use openvz anymore).

What is the output of

# pveversion -v

 

[Thomas Schmid]

root@zarniwoop:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# cat debian.list pve-enterprise.list

#Home-Config (my Debian-Mirror @ Home) - is up2date by ftpsync, four times a day

deb http://debian-security.beteigeuze.home/ buster/updates main contrib # non-free
deb http://debian.beteigeuze.home/ buster main contrib # non-free
deb http://debian.beteigeuze.home/ buster-updates main contrib # non-free

pve-enterprise.list
deb https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pve-enterprise

if this would be the next question ...

 

[Thomas Schmid]

pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 6.0-2 (running kernel: 5.0.21-1-pve)
pve-manager: 6.0-6 (running version: 6.0-6/c71f879f)
pve-kernel-5.0: 6.0-7
pve-kernel-helper: 6.0-7
pve-kernel-4.15: 5.4-6
pve-kernel-5.0.21-1-pve: 5.0.21-2
pve-kernel-5.0.15-1-pve: 5.0.15-1
pve-kernel-4.15.18-18-pve: 4.15.18-44
ceph-fuse: 12.2.11+dfsg1-2.1+b1
corosync: 3.0.2-pve2
criu: 3.11-3
glusterfs-client: 5.5-3
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-10
libknet1: 1.11-pve1
libpve-access-control: 6.0-2
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.0-2
libpve-common-perl: 6.0-4
libpve-guest-common-perl: 3.0-1
libpve-http-server-perl: 3.0-2
libpve-storage-perl: 6.0-7
libqb0: 1.0.5-1
lvm2: 2.03.02-pve3
lxc-pve: 3.1.0-64
lxcfs: 3.0.3-pve60
novnc-pve: 1.0.0-60
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.1-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 2.0-7
pve-cluster: 6.0-7
pve-container: 3.0-5
pve-docs: 6.0-4
pve-edk2-firmware: 2.20190614-1
pve-firewall: 4.0-7
pve-firmware: 3.0-2
pve-ha-manager: 3.0-2
pve-i18n: 2.0-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 4.0.0-5
pve-xtermjs: 3.13.2-1
qemu-server: 6.0-7
smartmontools: 7.0-pve2
spiceterm: 3.1-1
vncterm: 1.6-1
zfsutils-linux: 0.8.1-pve2

 

[sg90]

pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 6.0-2 (running kernel: 5.0.21-1-pve)

Then as dietmar said above.

Your running Proxmox 6.x which does not support OpenVZ, so most of them commands are no longer valid, I imagine the guide your using is probably aimed at Proxmox 4.x or 5.x

 

[Thomas Schmid]

@sg90
taken from Appendix A: Command Line Interface (https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#_install_proxmox_ve_on_debian)
version 6.0

for prog in pvesm pvesubscription pveperf pveceph pvenode pvesh qm qmrestore pct pveam pvecm pvesr pveum vzdump ha-manager
> do
> which $prog
> done
/usr/bin/pvesubscription
/usr/bin/pveperf
/usr/bin/pveceph
/usr/bin/pvenode
/usr/bin/pvesh
/usr/bin/pveam
/usr/bin/pvecm
/usr/bin/pvesr
/usr/bin/vzdump

I still miss 'pvesm, qm, qmrestore, pct, pveum, ha-manager' and I think this tools should be installed...

for prog in pvesm qmrestore pveum ha-manager
> do
> apt-file search $prog
> done
shows no output ...

seams like there is no package for that tools listed in my repositories... ? and I did an 'apt-file update' before

regards Thomas

 

[sg90]

@sg90
taken from Appendix A: Command Line Interface (https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#_install_proxmox_ve_on_debian)
version 6.0

for prog in pvesm pvesubscription pveperf pveceph pvenode pvesh qm qmrestore pct pveam pvecm pvesr pveum vzdump ha-manager
> do
> which $prog
> done
/usr/bin/pvesubscription
/usr/bin/pveperf
/usr/bin/pveceph
/usr/bin/pvenode
/usr/bin/pvesh
/usr/bin/pveam
/usr/bin/pvecm
/usr/bin/pvesr
/usr/bin/vzdump

I still miss 'pvesm, qm, qmrestore, pct, pveum, ha-manager' and I think this tools should be installed...

for prog in pvesm qmrestore pveum ha-manager
> do
> apt-file search $prog
> done
shows no output ...

seams like there is no package for that tools listed in my repositories... ? and I did an 'apt-file update' before

regards Thomas

On my 6.x install qm e.t.c are stored in /usr/sbin/

 

[Thomas Schmid]

Sorry for the effort guys and shame on me

what a stupid noob mistake: su without a dash doesn't act like a new login and so /usr/sbin was not part of my $PATH-variable....
@sg90: -> /usr/sbin was the hint (I looked for with midnight commander and found the commands ...)


thanks for your help