tar.lzo backups will not restore in PVE4 Beta
Hi I have a PVE 4 Beta installation in test at the moment. I have a handful of non-critical LXC guests running on there. I have been backing them up to a remote NFS mount using LZO compression. After a...
View Articleproxmox/multiple hypervisors and associated storage configuration on home server
I'm totally new to virtualization (and to linux ;) ) and some of my questions may be stupid ;) but would appreciate if someone could take a look at my ideas below and give a pointer ahead of time so to...
View ArticleCustomize a LXC template ?
Hi every body ! Can someone explain me how can i modify a template ? i have downloaded the proxmox standard jessie template and i modified it to match my need, how can i create my own template from...
View ArticleBackup stays not the same
Hi, If I backup an offline VM (no compression) twice, the backup files are not identical. For a 1.8 GB VM (Jessie) the difference is only 313 KB, but why is there a difference at all? $ ls -l...
View ArticleMigration of physical machine to VM in Proxmox
Hello guys, I have a SunV40 physical server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release wich I want to migrate to a virtual machine in Proxmox. Which is the easiest way of doing that? Thanks!
View ArticleResize /dev/mapper/pve-root & rootfs
Like the topic I would like to resize rootfs and the pve-root folders due to they don't use much space and I would like to give that space to /dev/mapper/pve-data instead. rootfs 28G 1.2GB(used)...
View ArticleProxmox with SAN
Hi everybody, I'm going to install proxmox on one node with a FC SAN (I would like to add another node in future), but I just have some concerns about which storage backend to use. I really like ZFS...
View ArticleHow do I export a VM in .ova format ?
Hello, I need to export a VM in the .ova format, so that I can import it in various other hypervisors... How can I do this ?
View ArticleUpgrade server from no-subscription to enterprise
Hi, I have two question: I would like to upgrade my server from a current 3.1-114 to a more recent 3.4-160 (enterprise). Is it possibile to achieve this without reboot the server? (this is a node of a...
View Articlewhere do i set numbers of backup pr vm?
I don't know whats wrong with me, but all of a sudden i can't find where i set the number of backups to be made per vm. I have a running backup where i want to ajust how many days back i want backup of...
View ArticleGuest Install Issues on Proxmox 4.0
Started some testing with Proxmox 4.0 as it looks pretty sweet. Every was going fantastic until I went to install a CentOS 6.6 VM. I am hitting this exact issue except I don't run a Dell array, its a...
View ArticleUnable to re-mount /proc in Proxmox 3 containers?
Recently I discovered that the default /proc mount inside CentOS containers running under Proxmox 3.1 were mounted insecurely: # mount|grep " /proc" proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime) Under older...
View Articletun devices in ve 4 (lxc)
What is the 'proxmox way' of adding a tun device to an lxc container on boot? I tried putting "lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:200 rwm" in the config for the container, but the gui was pretty upset...
View Articlenetwork problems in virtual machine (windows 7)
Hello everyone ! I have Proxmox running on VMware and I can not have virtual machines internet . configure a virtual machine with windows 7 ( virtio drivers ) and I figure without internet access ....
View ArticleVZDump error list and how to simulate them
Hello, I would like to know, which errors can happen when backuping proxmox VMs. And I would like to know, how to simulate them. For example I don't know how to simulate locked VM for backup. I am...
View ArticleBest practices partitoning proxmox 3.4 on OVH Server
Hi all, I'm going to install a new proxmox s3.4 on OVH server, to avoid configuration errorcould anyone confirm the best HD partition? Scenario: Infrastructure Server 32GB RAM - 3 300GB SSD SoftRaid -...
View ArticleHow to add extra keys in authority_keys
Want to add a few extra keys but how to overcome this: root@n1:~# ls -l /etc/pve/priv/authorized_keys -rw------- 1 root www-data 2724 Sep 4 12:38 /etc/pve/priv/authorized_keys root@n1:~# chmod u+w...
View Articlebackup / restore old vm from old proxmox to new
Hello, i have a machine with an old proxmox 1.9, recently i buy a new machine and i would install last proxmox. Can I backup vm machine from 1.9 and restore in new proxmox? Or vm machine not working...
View Articlecluster troubleshooting guide? empty in cluster config?
Can someone well versed in the pve cluster stack please write a cluster troubleshooting guide? in http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/168...6859#post86859 Quote: Oh, seems you did not configured rgmanager...
View ArticleAssign virtual public IP directly onto an interface on Proxmox container.
I have a pfSense router which has multiple subnets of IPs routed to it. My Proxmox is a client to pfSense and has obtained IP of 192.168.4.3 - all containers made by Proxmox have Bridgemode so they...
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