Proxmox VE 1.9 released!

[martin]

We just released Proxmox VE 1.9 - including a lot of fixes and updates - a big thanks to all beta testers.

This release includes the long awaited new stable OpenVZ (2.6.32) and also latest KVM 0.15 with KSM support.

Release notes:
Roadmap

How to get the latest version:
Downloads
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Best regards,
Martin Maurer

 

[RaNa]

i just updated my proxmox and this is how its looking


proxmox:~# pveversion -v
pve-manager: 1.9-24 (pve-manager/1.9/6542)
running kernel: 2.6.32-6-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.9-43
pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve: 2.6.32-33
pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve: 2.6.32-43
qemu-server: 1.1-32
pve-firmware: 1.0-13
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-19
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.28-1pve5
vzdump: 1.2-15
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.15.0-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-6

how do i remove the pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve: 2.6.32-33 im not sure if thats right

 

[tom]

it looks fine, the additional kernel is no issue. but you can safely remove it, just run:

aptitude remove pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve

 

[RaNa]

thank you

 

[BiagioParuolo]

Hi, good news...the 2v is closer.

- Which function is "support 'maxfiles' backup option"?
- run pre-restart hook after snapshot?
- improvements on kvm ?

 

[tom]

Hi, good news...the 2v is closer.

- Which function is "support 'maxfiles' backup option"?
- run pre-restart hook after snapshot?
- improvements on kvm ?

- maxfiles: defines how many backups to keep (before you needed to add this parameter in /etc/vzdump.conf, now on GUI)
- hook scripts are only for special use cases
- KVM: see 0.15 release notes, http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/0.15

 

[Duduhandelman]

Thank you for great product.

For some reason KSM is not mention in the roadmap page.
Can someone please confirm that KSM is working out of the box in 1.9.

Many thanks.

 

[tom]

KSM is fixed with the new kernel, and yes it works out of the box. but as always, you need to wait some time to see results, see also http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/KSM

 

[Duduhandelman]

Thank you...

 

[bhelbush]

Thanks for the update. I updated my lab system last night and all went well except Linix Mint 11 stopped working. I had it running on KVM. Now it won't start.
This is not a big deal to me, but I thought I'd report it. Should I do some trouble shooting or just reinstall?
Thanks.

-Bob

 

[tom]

do you have any details, error messages? linux mint 11 is not involved in our test cases - but I just download it now.

 

[bhelbush]

Had a lock on it. Removed and it's running again. Thanks!

 

[flow]

Hi,

for some reason i don't understand KSM is not working for me.

Here my pveversion -v

pve-manager: 1.9-24 (pve-manager/1.9/6542)
running kernel: 2.6.32-6-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.9-43
pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve: 2.6.32-33
pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve: 2.6.32-43
qemu-server: 1.1-32
pve-firmware: 1.0-13
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-19
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.28-1pve5
vzdump: 1.2-15
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.15.0-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-6

There are 5 Windows Server 2008R2 running on this Host. Memory used is around 80-90%.
But pages_shared and pages_sharing shows me 0 even after waiting several hours.

Echoing 1 into /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run sadly didn't change anything, although ksmtuned seems to be running.

Could you please provide some help? I'm very eager to use this nice feature
Thanks in advance

 

[dietmar]

There are 5 Windows Server 2008R2 running on this Host. Memory used is around 80-90%.

What is the output of

# free

 

[flow]

The output is:

#free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 24621580 19911568 4710012 0 20932 721824
-/+ buffers/cache: 19168812 5452768
Swap: 24117240 0 24117240

 

[stuartm]

Our Proxmox servers are in an isolated network with no external access - presumably I can point aptitude to a local repository but where can I get the actual packages to download? If anybody has a step by step and has done this, I would be very grateful....

 

[tom]

download.proxmox.com

 

[flow]

You could build your own mirror with something like apt-mirror.
Here's a HowTo: http://www.howtoforge.com/local_debian_ubuntu_mirror

Obvously replace the repositories used there with:
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian lenny pve

 

[ezozoaga]

Hello,

With this new update to 1.9 and downgrading kernel from 2.6.35 to 2.6.32-6, OCFS2 is NOT working!!

# /etc/init.d/o2cb enable | start
Writing O2CB configuration: OK
Loading filesystem "ocfs2_dlmfs": Unable to load filesystem "ocfs2_dlmfs"
Failed

# locate -i ocfs2_dlmfs
/lib/modules/2.6.32-4-pve/kernel/fs/ocfs2/dlm/ocfs2_dlmfs.ko

Seems that there is not module for the running kernel.

And after triying to compile from ocfs2-1.4.7.tar.gz:
...
...
/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/dir.c:865: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk’ from incompatible pointer type
CC [M] /opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.o
CC [M] /opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/export.o
/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/export.c: In function ‘ocfs2_get_dentry’:
/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/export.c:139: error: implicit declaration of function ‘d_alloc_anon’
/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/export.c:139: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/export.c: In function ‘ocfs2_get_parent’:
/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/export.c:189: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/export.c: In function ‘ocfs2_decode_fh’:
/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/export.c:302: error: ‘struct export_operations’ has no member named ‘find_exported_dentry’
/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/export.c: At top level:
/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/export.c:311: error: unknown field ‘decode_fh’ specified in initializer
/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/export.c:311: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/export.c:315: error: unknown field ‘get_dentry’ specified in initializer
/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/export.c:315: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[4]: *** [/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/export.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2] Error 2
make[2]: *** [_module_/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-6-pve'
make[1]: *** [build-modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs'
make: *** [fs] Error 2


# pveversion -vpve-manager: 1.9-24 (pve-manager/1.9/6542)
running kernel: 2.6.32-6-pve
pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve: 2.6.32-33
pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve: 2.6.32-43
qemu-server: 1.1-32
pve-firmware: 1.0-13
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-19
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.28-1pve5
vzdump: 1.2-15
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1


regards,

 

[tom]

The RHEL6 based kernel does not include ocfs2, redhat believes in gfs2. but both cluster file systems are not used in Proxmox VE.