[SOLVED] Cluster with 3 nodes - Different kernel version from same ISO

[WeeR]

Hello everyone.

I'm quite new to Proxmox, and I'm trying to put up a test environment.
Currently I have running 3 nodes, all installed from the same ISO.
Two of these are running Linux 5.4.34-1pve and pve-manager/6.2-4/9824574a but the last one is running Linux 5.4.65-1pve and pve-manager/6.2-15/48bd51b6.
All machines claim to be fully updated and they have the same repositories in etc/apt/sources.list.

Because of this, I'm not able to live migrate from the server running the newest kernel. ( Installed QEMU version '5.0.0' is too old to run machine type 'pc-i440fx-5.1+pve0', please upgrade node)

1. Is it possible to downgrade the kernel safely, possibly without reboot? If yes, how?
2. How could they be running different versions, when installed from the same ISO and I've been running the same apt-update on all nodes.
3. If I shut down the VM's, is it possible to move from 5.1 to 5.0.0 like on Xenserver? (Where it's possible to move across version with normal migrate, not live)

Apricate all help.

 

[Moayad]

Hi,

1. Is it possible to downgrade the kernel safely, possibly without reboot? If yes, how?

I didn't recommend this. However, when the node boots up, you can choose the version of the kernel that you need to boot from.

2. How could they be running different versions, when installed from the same ISO and I've been running the same apt-update on all nodes.

Can you post full output of apt update and find /etc/apt -name '*.list' -exec cat {} + on the node that use pve-manager/6.2-4 version?

3. If I shut down the VM's, is it possible to move from 5.1 to 5.0.0 like on Xenserver? (Where it's possible to move across version with normal migrate, not live)

I did't used Xenserver, but it's possible if you used HA (High Availability)

 

[WeeR]

Hi and thanks for the quick reply.

1. Thanks for the answer about this

2. I'm pasting the output in the bottom of the post. I see now that they are in fact not the same (my mistake), as one have stretch and one have buster.
Which is recommended? Wound it be safe to add buster to the ones running the older version and update or to reinstall the one with newer version to the same version as the other ones?
I've moved VM's away from it now, so it would not be a problem.

3. I tried this today, and shutdown -> move is worked fine, so this is the same as with Xenserver.

Thanks again in advance for any answer.

Output 6.2-4:
Hit:1 http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve stretch InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

##

deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian buster main contrib

deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib

# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org buster/updates main contrib
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve stretch pve-no-subscription

Output 6.2-15:
Hit:1 http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
13 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

##

deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian buster main contrib

deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib

# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org buster/updates main contrib
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pve-no-subscription

 

[Moayad]

as one have stretch and one have buster.
Which is recommended? Wound it be safe to add buster to the ones running the older version and update or to reinstall the one with newer version to the same version as the other ones?

Stretch is already EOL [1], you need to change your source to buster.

Hit:4 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve stretch InRelease

change this line in your sources.list
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve stretch pve-no-subscription
to this
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pve-no-subscription

Then do apt update && apt full-upgrade don't forget to reboot the node after the upgrade is complete as you will get a new kernel

[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/FAQ

 

[WeeR]

Thanks Moayad!
Everything is working well now.

 

[Moayad]

Great! Please mark the thread as [SOLVED] to help other people who have the same issue Thanks!

have a nice day