On my clusters, the 6.8.x kernel breaks during the upgrade if an existing NVIDIA driver is already installed. It's fine on hosts that don't have NVIDIA code...
On my clusters, the 6.8.x kernel breaks during the upgrade if an existing NVIDIA driver is already installed. It's fine on hosts that don't have NVIDIA code...
If you use drivers that are not provided by the Linux kernel or Proxmox, you need to make sure they are compatible. Maybe ask NVidia for a newer version and support? There are lots of threads on this forum about NVidia drivers and version incompatibilities.
We recently uploaded a 6.14 kernel into our repositories. The current 6.8 kernel will stay the default on the Proxmox VE 8 series, the newly introduced 6.14 kernel is an option.
The 6.14 based kernel may be useful for some (especially newer) setups, for example if there is improved hardware support that has not yet been backported to 6.8.
This follows our tradition of upgrading the Proxmox VE kernel to match the current Ubuntu version until we reach an (Ubuntu) LTS release, like the 6.8 kernel is, and then provide newer kernels as opt-in. The 6.14 kernel is based on the Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky...