Hi everyone, I recently installed Proxmox 9. While configuring several VMs, I had to restart them a few times. At one point, I noticed that one of the machines froze, which really intrigued me because I've never encountered anything like this before. I've been using Proxmox since version 5 in 2018. Initially, I suspected, and confirmed on various forums, that it was probably a disk issue. I checked the VM disks and the host disk... everything seemed fine. However, if I shut down the machine and restarted it, sometimes it would boot and sometimes it wouldn't. I decided to test on a different host. I installed Proxmox 9 from a template, performed a clean install of Trixie, and made 10 copies. Then I performed 10 shutdowns and restarts on all the machines. Five times out of those 10 cycles, between one and three machines froze. On a third host, I installed Proxmox 8 from a template and copied the VM seed from version 9, making 10 copies. I performed 40 reboot cycles on these 10 copies, and none of them ever froze.
Version 8 is supported until next September, and I'd prefer to have version 9 right away because what I'll be deploying will be there for two or three years. Has anyone else noticed anything similar? Any recommendations? Should I stick with version 8 or take the risk with version 9?
Version 8 is supported until next September, and I'd prefer to have version 9 right away because what I'll be deploying will be there for two or three years. Has anyone else noticed anything similar? Any recommendations? Should I stick with version 8 or take the risk with version 9?