Proxmox on debian

[pcmanning]

Because I have partitioning requirements not met by the default Proxmox install - please guys make this more flexible! - I'm trying out the Debian Lenny install as per the wiki. In addition, I've installed all the packages present from the Proxmox install on top of the default debian install.

First problem, is that the web interface for changing network settings doesn't work. It creates a new file /etc/interfaces.new, but doesn't copy this over to /etc/interfaces on server reboot. I know I can do this manually, but it could be a symptom of a more fundamental issue which could stop things working.

Any thoughts
Paul

 

[scheelec]

For the specific Problem:

Would a link /etc/network/interfaces -> /etc/network/interfaces.new
solve the Problem?

 

[pcmanning]

No different from manually copying interfaces.new to interfaces - still left wondering why it doesn't work from the GUI - and what other files does it try to edit this way?

Paul

 

[tom]

Because I have partitioning requirements not met by the default Proxmox install - please guys make this more flexible!

you can use the Debian installer, very flexible.

- I'm trying out the Debian Lenny install as per the wiki. In addition, I've installed all the packages present from the Proxmox install on top of the default debian install.

First problem, is that the web interface for changing network settings doesn't work. It creates a new file /etc/interfaces.new, but doesn't copy this over to /etc/interfaces on server reboot. I know I can do this manually, but it could be a symptom of a more fundamental issue which could stop things working.

Any thoughts
Paul

works perfectly here (followed the wike page), I installed a lot of systems this way. so there must be something different on your side - do you have a desktop like gnome installed?

and post your 'pveversion -v'

 

[pcmanning]

kilimanjaro:~# pveversion -v
pve-manager: 1.5-8 (pve-manager/1.5/4674)
running kernel: 2.6.18-2-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.18: 1.5-5
pve-kernel-2.6.18-2-pve: 2.6.18-5
qemu-server: 1.1-11
pve-firmware: 1.0-3
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-10
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.23-1pve8
vzdump: 1.2-5
vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm-2.6.18: 0.9.1-5

Did base debian install - nothing selected - followed wiki closely - had to edit /etc/udev rules to get eth0/1/2 back from eth3/4/5 - presume this normal as its mentioned in the wiki too.

Then installed all the "missing" packages by comparing the installed list against another PVE bare metal install - there's some residual differences - e.g. apache2 has a lenny4 suffix on the PVE install, whereas it has lenny6 on the Debian install.

So no desktop etc installed

Paul

 

[pcmanning]

PS: Seems that the residual package differences come from Debian adding volatile to the list of sources. I've modified my stock pve install to include this and it updates a load of files, but network editing is still working!

Paul