Proxmox VE 8.0 released!

[Jorge Teixeira]

Great work proxmox team.
I have a small doubt. In the prerequisites you say "Co-installed Proxmox Backup Server should wait until a public beta or final version will be released". Does that mean that if a have a PBS as a VM on my proxmox host i must not update yet and wait for a PBS beta at least?

 

[jsterr]

Great work proxmox team.
I have a small doubt. In the prerequisites you say "Co-installed Proxmox Backup Server should wait until a public beta or final version will be released". Does that mean that if a have a PBS as a VM on my proxmox host i must not update yet and wait for a PBS beta at least?

Coinstalled means that you install it directly without a extra vm on the hypervisor host. Means https://ip-pve:8006 is your PVE and https://ip-pve:8007 is your pbs, same host.

 

[Jorge Teixeira]

Coinstalled means that you install it directly without a extra vm on the hypervisor host. Means https://ip-pve:8006 is your PVE and https://ip-pve:8007 is your pbs, same host.

Understood...Thanks.

 

[deniax]

From the https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_7_to_8 page, I try the command

sed -i -e 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-install-repo.list

, but I get an error

sed: can't read /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-install-repo.list: No such file or directory

How to proceed?

 

[bbgeek17]

, but I get an error

sed: can't read /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-install-repo.list: No such file or directory

How to proceed?

cd into /etc/apt and review your apt files and their context. Its possible you named your files differently

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[jordanp123]

Anyone seen this warning ?

WARN: proxmox-boot-tool is used for bootloader configuration in uefi modebut the separate systemd-boot package, existing in Debian Bookworm is not installedinitializing new ESPs will not work until the package is installed

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Anyone seen this warning ?

WARN: proxmox-boot-tool is used for bootloader configuration in uefi modebut the separate systemd-boot package, existing in Debian Bookworm is not installedinitializing new ESPs will not work until the package is installed

This warning says that your system uses proxmox-boot-tool for booting (which is the case for systems with '/' on ZFS installed by the PVE installer).
In the UEFI case the system uses systemd-boot for booting - see [0]. Until bullseye systemd-boot was part of the systemd main package, with bookworm it became a package of its own (systemd-boot). Since the new package installs hooks and automatically installs systemd-boot on a mounted ESP (which is the case for systems installed with LVM) we did not pull it in unconditionally upon upgrade.
for proxmox-boot-tool the systemd-boot package itself is only needed if you initialize new ESPs (e.g. when changing a faulted disk in your ZFS RAID [1]) - so your system remains bootable even without systemd-boot installed - You can simply install systemd-boot and the warning will vanish

I hope this explains it!

[0] https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-sysadmin.html#sysboot
[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-sysadmin.html#_zfs_administration

 

[Propaganda]

Hi, I think I've found another issue with the graphical installer. Seems like it doesn't set / save the selected hard disks correctly when chosing them for a RAID. I've attached a screencast to demonstrate.

Am I doing something wrong? Totally an option as well

https://youtu.be/Gn7UDup2Gjs

best regards

Seeing the same thing on real hardware here.

 

[fabian]

Seeing the same thing on real hardware here.

Hi, I think I've found another issue with the graphical installer. Seems like it doesn't set / save the selected hard disks correctly when chosing them for a RAID. I've attached a screencast to demonstrate.

Am I doing something wrong? Totally an option as well

https://youtu.be/Gn7UDup2Gjs

best regards

can confirm this issue, we are working on a fix and re-rolled iso!

 

[spirit]

This actually confuses me now:

Either

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

or

apt update
apt full-upgrade

Does anyone know the answer?

dist-upgrade && full-upgrade is exactly the same thing.

https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/blob/main/cmdline/apt.cc#L77

 {"full-upgrade", &DoDistUpgrade, _("upgrade the system by removing/installing/upgrading packages")},

https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/blob/main/cmdline/apt.cc#L85
      // for compat with muscle memory
      {"dist-upgrade", &DoDistUpgrade, nullptr},

 

[encryptedserver]

Why proxmox website does not use CDN, the website keeps timing out, download was 3Mbps.

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Why proxmox website does not use CDN, the website keeps timing out, download was 3Mbps.

just grab the ISO from our cdn:
https://enterprise.proxmox.com/iso/

Or use BitTorrent

I hope this helps!

 

[RolandK]

Hi, I think I've found another issue with the graphical installer. Seems like it doesn't set / save the selected hard disks correctly when chosing them for a RAID. I've attached a screencast to demonstrate.

Am I doing something wrong? Totally an option as well

https://youtu.be/Gn7UDup2Gjs

best regards

can confirm this issue, we are working on a fix and re-rolled iso!

not new one, but glad to hear that it's getting adressed now: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4473

 

[t.lamprecht]

Hi, I think I've found another issue with the graphical installer. Seems like it doesn't set / save the selected hard disks correctly when chosing them for a RAID. I've attached a screencast to demonstrate.

Am I doing something wrong? Totally an option as well

https://youtu.be/Gn7UDup2Gjs

best regards

Seeing the same thing on real hardware here.

FYI, the refreshed ISO proxmox-ve_8.0-2.iso is out now on the CDN and www.proxmox.com, it only has an updated installer as change with a few targeted fixes for existing bugs that only stuck out now, i.e., some HD size/max LVM overrides, smaller disk sizes, and also a fix for the raid disk selection, which is now preserved including the order.

The launch of the TUI based installer mode was slightly bumpier than we'd have liked, but thanks to all of your quick feedback, the discussion for targeted fixes of developers and confirming those fixes, we could resolve this quickly enough and will ensure raid disks selection including order, especially of mixed sizes, is always taken a closer look at in future installer QA.

 

[RolandK]

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

not new one, but glad to hear that it's getting adressed now: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4473

This particular issue has not been addressed by the 8.0 ISO - just not not cause more confusion.

We quickly looked it through - and one option we came up with is that we might make installation with mixed-size disks as mirror-pairs (or in a raid-zX vdev) possible by letting the user explicitly select a hdsize in the installer (which is less or equal to the smallest disk)
However this will come earliest with a future 8.1 (not promises of course)

 

[legómina]

Hello. I get error messages regarding squashfs command (the installer says that there is an error in line 870 of Install.pm file). The error pops up and installation breaks.
I get similar error (different line) both on 8.0.1 and 8.0.2. I didn't have such error when installing 7.3 version of proxmox.
My hardware - HP 600 g3 - 2 nvme disks (one is the target for installation), 2 hdd 2.5 inch; 24 GB RAM, installation medium - USB disk (sha256 is correct)

 

[mary-jane]

FYI, the refreshed ISO proxmox-ve_8.0-2.iso is out now on the CDN and www.proxmox.com, it only has an updated installer as change with a few targeted fixes for existing bugs that only stuck out now, i.e., some HD size/max LVM overrides, smaller disk sizes, and also a fix for the raid disk selection, which is now preserved including the order.

The launch of the TUI based installer mode was slightly bumpier than we'd have liked, but thanks to all of your quick feedback, the discussion for targeted fixes of developers and confirming those fixes, we could resolve this quickly enough and will ensure raid disks selection including order, especially of mixed sizes, is always taken a closer look at in future installer QA.

Thank you very much

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Hello. I get error messages regarding squashfs command (the installer says that there is an error in line 870 of Install.pm file). The error pops up and installation breaks.
I get similar error (different line) both on 8.0.1 and 8.0.2. I didn't have such error when installing 7.3 version of proxmox.
My hardware - HP 600 g3 - 2 nvme disks (one is the target for installation), 2 hdd 2.5 inch; 24 GB RAM, installation medium - USB disk (sha256 is correct)

Since the ISO works for most other people here (and for us internally) I don't think that the issue is indeed an error in the perl-code of the installer.

I'd suggest to try a different USB drive, and maybe also different software for transferring the ISO to the USB (plain linux dd works definitely)

 

[Gilberto Ferreira]

Hi
How can I use virtiofsd in a Windows 2019 servers VM?
I noticed that was a VirtIO FS Device installed



And there is a service installed as well:



And some files in Program Files


Is there any documentation in how to use it?
Thanks