Problem creating VMs on newly installed PROXMOX

stef4o

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Oct 31, 2025
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Here is the problem:
Fresh installation of PROXMOX on new hardware. My first installation of PROXMOX ever.
Main disk for PROXMOX installation is 1Tb SSD (Samsung EVO)

Installation goes well, PROXMOX running on static IP 192.168.1.211, I am able to log with Web Console and ssh from my windows desktop too.
Tried to create VM for ZimaOS several times - it failed, tried to create VM for Ubuntu Server several times - it fails.

Troubleshooting:
Error I get is :

Code:
Rounding up size to full physical extent 4.00 MiB
Logical volume "vm-131-disk-0" created.
Logical volume pve/vm-131-disk-0 changed.
transferred 0.0 B of 528.0 KiB (0.00%)
transferred 528.0 KiB of 528.0 KiB (100.00%)
transferred 528.0 KiB of 528.0 KiB (100.00%)
TASK ERROR: unable to create VM 131 - command '/sbin/lvs --separator : --noheadings --units b --unbuffered --nosuffix --options lv_size /dev/pve/vm-131-disk-0' failed: got timeout

On terminal open ssh as root or in schell web interface

Code:
journalctl
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Nov 07 14:37:44 pve pvedaemon[3819]: VM 131 creating disks failed
Nov 07 14:37:44 pve pvedaemon[3819]: unable to create VM 131 - command '/sbin/lvs --separator : --noheadings --units b --unbuffered --nosuffix --options lv_size /dev/pve/vm-131-disk-0' failed: got timeout
Nov 07 14:37:44 pve pvedaemon[1230]: <root@pam> end task UPID:pve:00000EEB:000164EC:690DE7D7:qmcreate:131:root@pam: unable to create VM 131 - command '/sbin/lvs --separator : --noheadings --units b --unbuff>
Nov 07 14:37:44 pve kernel: usb 1-7.4: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
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Error is the same: It can't create the logical volume.
Executing the same command in shell as root:

Code:
root@pve:~# /sbin/lvs --separator : --noheadings --units b --unbuffered --nosuffix --options lv_size /dev/pve/vm-131-disk-0
  4194304

root@pve:~# time /sbin/lvs
  LV            VG  Attr       LSize    Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  data          pve twi-aotz-- <793.80g             0.01   0.24                           
  root          pve -wi-ao----   96.00g                                                   
  swap          pve -wi-ao----    8.00g                                                   
  vm-131-disk-0 pve Vwi---tz--    4.00m data                                               

real    0m5.136s
user    0m0.004s
sys     0m0.005s

Executing the command that creates the logical volume manually works, but it takes 6-10 sec. Same for the simply list LV command which IMHO is a lot
Logs are flooded with

Bash:
Nov 07 14:37:47 pve kernel: usb 1-7.4: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd

SSD was tested on another machine and is up the specs from Samsung. Blazingly fast no problems at all.

Any ideas, how to check and troubleshoot slow LV creation / list etc. performance. Hardware issue ? Something else ?
 
Welcome, stef4o!

1) Please post the output of lsblk

2) These USB-related messages are suspicious. Are there any USB devices except for the keyboard?