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Proxmox Virtual Environment is an AGPL licensed and debian-based Linux distribution with a strong focus on hosting virtual machine.

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I want to provision a VM in proxmox with cloud-init, such that tailscale will be set up and running on first boot. The image I use is alpine 3.22.1 (nocloud_alpine-3.22.1-x86_64-uefi-cloudinit-r0....
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I have two NVMe drives in my Proxmox computers. My problem is that the drive names are not persistent and change in connection with reinstallation or reboot. The problem is not specific to NVMe drives....
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I am configuring a single-node proxmox server for use as a home server/homelab. I am looking to run many of my generic applications (like immich, jellyfin, etc) in docker containers, which could all ...
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I'm running Proxmox VE 8.4.1, and I’m experiencing a strange behavior with a Debian 12 (Bookworm) VM: the qemu-guest-agent is clearly active and responding, but when I try to shut down the VM via qm ...
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I'm trying to configure a reverse proxy on an LXC Container in proxmox, however the container is not able to resolve DNS. The proxmox node has no issue with DNS, and both the node and the container ...
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I'v got 2 Linux servers, Proxima and Lisa. Proxima is as iSCSI-target, Lisa as iSCSI-initiator connects to Proxima. An initial connection is successfully done. But while data transfering Proxima ...
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I'm running proxmox with an nvidia 1060 that I'm passing through to a Linux guest operating system. I'm expecting the GPU to to render to the video out which it does sometimes and I'm struggling to ...
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I have an Nvidia 1060 which is currently not used. I would like to assign this graphics card to be used by a virtual machine. I'm thinking the output can be mapped directly to the hdmi output? or back ...
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I cannot for the life of me work out why BIND9 is refusing queries. I have followed so many tutorials and watched so many configuration setup videos, both using Webmin and in the CLI, following them ...
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I set a USB radio to passthrough proxmox to my Home Assistant VM. This works fine, but sometimes I have to remove it. If I try to start the VM without the USB device plugged in, the VM will NEVER ...
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I'm building a small home server using Proxmox as the base OS, and I've been trying to improve power efficiency by allowing the machine to go into lower power states. I'm running a Ryzen 5 7600 and an ...
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I’m looking for some guidance on expanding my Proxmox setup. Here’s my current setup and what I’m trying to achieve: Current Setup​ I have a dedicated OVH server running Proxmox. On this server, I ...
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I have a custom SSH server written in go that wraps commands called by the client in apparmor. One of the profiles confines sudo and what commands it can call. It started failing on a proxmox backup ...
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I have an AMD iGPU (integrated in an AMD Ryzen 9 9950x CPU) that I want to use as the video output for a Windows VM in proxmox (I have no other GPU installed). I discovered that it doesn't have the ...
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I have a Proxmox 8.3.2 hypervisor host, running several Linux VMs. Recently, I opted in to the Proxmox 6.11 kernels (Default is 6.8 kernels). Around that time, I noticed that after a reboot, the VMs ...
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Bind mounts seem to be hard. I am looking for the right way to use a bind mount to mount a given directory to another one pretty much like a symlink (but I can't use a symlink because my application ...
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I am setting up a printer in a Debian LXC image on Proxmox. I identified the printer in lsusb: Bus 001 Device 007: ID 04f9:01ea Brother Industries, Ltd DCP-7030 and I forward it in Proxmox (device /...
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I recently added a new VM in ProxMox for various web services. I originally allocated a minimum of 8GB of RAM with ballooning available to 16 GB. All seemed to be well until I tried installing ...
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I've just reinstalled the Proxmox, but before it I copied some of the disk of the existing machines to a NAS. Now I'm trying to move the disk to the new system. It seem that Proxmox is waiting for ...
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I am using rsync to sync around ~2TB of data. I get the following errors in the log file: rsync: [receiver] mkstemp "/mnt/sd25-4tb-bkp4-mnt4/tns-maindatads-smb/tns-maindatads-smb/main-data-subds-...
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I am using rsync to sync around ~2TB of data to a mechanical HDD-5400RPM. It's taking way too long. How can I improve the sync and check speeds to get as close as possible to maximum/optimal? Here is ...
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I have built a 6.10 kernel using gcc (with .config from generic ubuntu) on Ubuntu 24.04. I am able to run it on Ubuntu but not on Proxmox. On Proxmox, I get following error: Alert! /dev/mapper/pve-...
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Over the last few weeks I have been scratching my head trying to get Docker (and ultimately Portainer) running on an LXC in Proxmox. My setup is as follows: Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.2.4 (192.168....
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I'm running Proxmox 8.2.2. Recently my lvg became corrupt ("volume group pve has insufficient free space!") First, I tried to repair the vg: $ sudo lvconvert --repair pve/data Volume group &...
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I have A ceph on 3 node working for a year. I get a HEALTH_WARN about : 2 OSD have spurious read erros 1/3 mons down, quorum ceph01,ceph03 I tried to start mon on ceph02. But not working. xxxxxxx@...
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I've done a fresh Debian install on a system that had a second disk that was previously used for Proxmox and had some lvm volumes on it. If I do a lsblk I get: NAME MAJ:MIN RM ...
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I got 2 IP addresses from my hosting company, xx.xx.xx.109 and xx.xx.xx.110, both in the same subnet. The subnet mask is 255.255.255.192 and the gateway is xx.xx.xx.20 I have a Proxmox server and ...
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My friend and I bought 3 Dell Power Edge R740xd servers (128GB of RAM each) along with 11 SSD of 1TB each and 14 HDD of 14TB each. They are interconnected through 2 switches in two different networks ...
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How can such an output of free -m be explained? total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 32036 1012 225 3 8400 ...
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I have a faulty Ryzen 5900X desktop CPU. Previously, I somewhat tamed its faulty cores via isolcpus=2,3,14,15 kernel parameter in GRUB2 (see https://blog.cbugk.com/post/ryzen-5850x/). However, on ...
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On our two PROXMOX servers version 8.2.2 do we have a compile problem with veeam blksnap. dkms install -m blksnap -v 6.1.0.1498 Sign command: /lib/modules/6.8.4-2-pve/build/scripts/sign-file Signing ...
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I had a hard drive fail in my BTRFS raid10 array, and it is failing to remove. What am I missing? I already added a replacement drive /dev/sdf, but it won't let me remove the old failed drive. dulanic@...
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I'd like to send a mail using mailutils on Debian 12, but without or with a empty FROM field. In my Proxmox mail gateway there are sporadic mails without a from field. I've created a rule to replace ...
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I need to turn on/off an external usb hdd on my Proxmox VE 8 zimaboard832 (Debian 12 Bookworm) automatically. It's possibile with uhubctl? If it is, how can i make a turn_on/off bash script safely?
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I've been trying to write a QCOW2 image to an iSCSI LUN target but have been unsuccessful. Based on this link, this should be possible (and should be possible without having to mount the iSCSI LUN as ...
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I've installed a LXC fileserver on Proxmox Server to share a 1TB volume via NFS and CIFS and have it working with a set of user and group. Group: authors Users: Alicia Lisa Henrik Lars Group: ...
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My nfs share is mounted in an ubuntu 22 VM, root, ubuntu and a test user I created can all read/write. However the plex user created by the plex install cannot read or write. When I sudo su plex and ...
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Notes: I read How to convert SW MD RAID1 arrays to LVM mirrors? but wanted to pose the question as that is quite an old post. This is my first post. I have a sw RAID1 (2 8TB HDDs that present to ...
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High Level Description So I currently have a convoluted ZFS setup and want to restructure it, reusing some of the existing hardware. I know that the recommended way of doing something like this is to ...
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Debian 12.2 in an unpriviledged LXC (proxmox). It's almost 11:45 AM local time. At 5:00 AM in the morning, cron started a script: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME ...
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Ubuntu seems to be portable: an Ubuntu SSD can be move from one PC to another, so long as the PC is older than the Ubuntu release year. I understand that ProxMox is also a Debian distro. Ubuntu 17.x....
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I have a VM in Proxmox running Debian. After a sudden power failure I've got problems with this VM and it seems due to the fact that the disc has been remounted as read only. Docker is complaining /...
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My prelimanary actions: setting up a ddns hostname with noip service (ok) configured to automatically keep alive the association on my home router(ok) installed a proxmox server v8 (ok) create a lxc ...
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I use the VEEAM agent version 6.0.3.1221 with Debian 12.1 (PROXMOX). At first everything worked fine for weeks. Suddenly we have the following issue - see the log. Is it possible to disable the ...
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I have my home server with Proxmox installed. During installation I created just a default swap partition of small size, but did not consider it necessary, since my server has 192GB of RAM installed. ...
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I'm using Proxmox and ZFS. Previously, I had set up an NFS share using sharenfs, on a now removed zfs pool (panzer). Over a year has passed, and I'm trying to set up a new NFS share. When I run ...
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i already posted my question on the Proxmox forum because that is the hypervisor i am using, however i take the opportunity of doing it here as well, the more people sees it the better chance i have ...
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I set up my NFS following this video from Jay (The Linux Guy) until before setting up the autofs. In my case my server (192.168.1.99) is running the Proxmox 8 (based on Debian) and my laptop (192.168....
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I recently attempted to install iRedMail on a container running Ubuntu 20.04 on my Proxmox server in my home lab. Everything apart the port 25 is working perfectly (updates, remote connection, remote ...
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I got two identical network cards in my server that I run Proxmox VE on. One of them is unclaimed, the other one is running fine. Can anyone help with this? I understand that unclaimed usually is a ...
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