pve cli commands on my debian VM with pdm?

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danjp

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Hello,

I created a Debian VM and installed PDM. I added the three nodes part of a cluster to it and all is well. What would be the apt packages to install in order to use the proxmox (pve and qm) cli commands on my VM/PDM console?

Thanks,
 
The Proxmox VE management commands (qm, pct, pvesm, etc.) are integral parts of a PVE installation and only work locally on a PVE node, so there is no way to use them from a Proxmox Datacenter Installation at this moment. At subset of the functionality is available through the proxmox-datacenter-manager-client CLI tool, but this is still very limited and likely not a replacement for the local management tools for the foreseeable future.

Hope this helps.
 
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Lukas Wagner said:
The Proxmox VE management commands (qm, pct, pvesm, etc.) are integral parts of a PVE installation and only work locally on a PVE node, so there is no way to use them from a Proxmox Datacenter Installation at this moment. At subset of the functionality is available through the proxmox-datacenter-manager-client CLI tool, but this is still very limited and likely not a replacement for the local management tools for the foreseeable future.

Hope this helps.
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Lukas,

I can't find (path) the subset of CLI tools that come with proxmox-datacenter-manager. Could you provide that info. I see that from the PDM UI (Remotes menu) I could shutdown/start, and migrate VMs, would that subset of the functionality have the commands?
Thanks for the info it helps!
Daniel
 
Hello @danjp,

the proxmox-datacenter-manager-client ist by default installed in your PDM installation, with it you can manage remotes.

Example usage to stop a VM on a remote Cluster:
Code: 
root@pdm:~# proxmox-datacenter-manager-client pve qemu stop pve-2-frg-tk 702
upid: pve-2-frg-tk!UPID:PMX4:00231695:03782438:6799D85C:qmstop:702:root@pam!pdm-admin:
TaskStatus {
    exitstatus: Some(
        "OK",
    ),
    id: "702",
    node: "PMX4",
    pid: 2299541,
    pstart: 58205240,
    starttime: 1738135644,
    status: Stopped,
    ty: "qmstop",
    upid: "UPID:PMX4:00231695:03782438:6799D85C:qmstop:702:root@pam!pdm-admin:",
    user: "root@pam",
}

You can install the PDM-Cli via apt install proxmox-datacenter-manager-client on a different machine.
Be sure to add this repository to the sources list: deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pdm bookworm pdm-test

Example with echo:
Code: 
 echo "deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pdm bookworm pdm-test" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pdm-test.list
 
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smueller said:
Hello @danjp,

the proxmox-datacenter-manager-client ist by default installed in your PDM installation, with it you can manage remotes.

Example usage to stop a VM on a remote Cluster:
Code: 
root@pdm:~# proxmox-datacenter-manager-client pve qemu stop pve-2-frg-tk 702
upid: pve-2-frg-tk!UPID:PMX4:00231695:03782438:6799D85C:qmstop:702:root@pam!pdm-admin:
TaskStatus {
    exitstatus: Some(
        "OK",
    ),
    id: "702",
    node: "PMX4",
    pid: 2299541,
    pstart: 58205240,
    starttime: 1738135644,
    status: Stopped,
    ty: "qmstop",
    upid: "UPID:PMX4:00231695:03782438:6799D85C:qmstop:702:root@pam!pdm-admin:",
    user: "root@pam",
}

You can install the PDM-Cli via apt install proxmox-datacenter-manager-client on a different machine.
Be sure to add this repository to the sources list: deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pdm bookworm pdm-test

Example with echo:
Code: 
 echo "deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pdm bookworm pdm-test" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pdm-test.list
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Hi @smueller,

Thank you for the example unfortunately it doesn't work for me. Perhaps I'm missing some configuration settings in my PDM VM or cluster? Here is the error that I'm getting:
root@moxpdm:~# proxmox-datacenter-manager-client pve qemu stop PVE-Cluster 101
Error: no host specified
no host specified

Daniel
 
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