Migrate from VMWare a Debian Machine with SCSI Disk And LVM Partitions
Hi, I'll try to migratea VM from VmWare. Is a Debian OS with a SCSI disk (has lvm partitions) 1. I create a machine with scsi disk 2. Convert from vmdk to raw. Im using a sistem that only accepts raw...
View ArticleUser restrictions for new VM
Hello. Is it possible to limit the user to amount of virtual machines, disk space, memory, cores, etc.? Thanks.
View ArticlePerformace issue
Hi, I have 2 supermicro servers with latest Proxmox 3.0 installed on both: N1 - H8DMR-82 (nVidia chipset, AMD CPU) and N2 - X8SIE (Intel chipset, Xeon CPU). While N2 works great, N1 has some...
View Articlerun default debian kernel if not using openvz
Hi There has anyone tested to see if Proxmox will run with the default debian (wheezy) kernel - i know that openvz will not work however I am not interested in openvz support, only KVM. I'd rather have...
View ArticleMigration from Xen to Proxmox
Hi. I' trying to migrate virtual machines from Xen to proxmox. So far I have exported a vm from Xen Center, converted it to .raw image, dd'ed the .raw image to a lvm volume and created a config for the...
View Articleraw virtual disks, should they be converted to qcow2 ?
I was reading http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage_Migration and have a question. We'll be moving some KVM from drbd to nfs storage. Which vitual disk type is better to run on nfs - raw of qcow2 ?
View ArticleDebian Minimal DMESG Issue
Hi all, I started with the Debian 6 minimal install and updated it to Debian 7. I couldn't find a Debian 7 Minimal and the Debian 7 Standard was installing stuff (apache, etc) I don't want to deal...
View ArticleProxmox VE 3 fails to boot after installation
Just installed Proxmox VE 3.0 from USB, but my server is not booting. To install I had to enter debug mode to mount the USB and chroot into the installation, but after that installation went without...
View ArticleHA & Fencing Need Help
Hello I have 3 Servers 2 with IPMI KVM Super Micro 1 with DRAC6 Enterprise Dell Server I understand I have setup cluster first and then setup fencing but I am just stuck with few things may be you guys...
View Articleexternal usb device and ballooning fails to start
Hi, today i have updated a server to use ballooning, but it fails to start. If i disable ballooning or delete the args parameter for the external usb device, it works. Is there a chance to get working...
View ArticleCEPH with Proxmox?
After weeks of unsuccessful attempts to increase overall backup speed of my Proxmox VMs, i am now leaning towards some other solution. I have tried FreeNAS, OmniOS+Napp-it, Yottabyte, nothing increased...
View ArticleNightly backup causes KVM to die, requiring qm unlock to restart
Some nights when our backups run, one of the HA KVMs will die, and to make things worse it isn't brought up on the other node. Here's an example: 109: Jun 23 05:20:42 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 109...
View ArticleConfused by Wiki Instructions to make Win isos w/ VirtIO drivers- Please clarify
Im confused by the instructions on the Wiki that say to copy boot.wim and install.wim back to the sources folder of the ISO file, because these files didnt change when I ran the script win7-inject....
View Articlecluster problem
Hi, I have problem with my proxmox cluster, after creating a new cluster " pvecm create name_of_cluster" and adding one node " pvecm add ip_of_cluster", when I see in the web interface, i have only "...
View ArticleTrying to connect to my Proxmox Server need help!
Ok so i am running a linux debian 64 host os and installed proxmox ve 3.0 in a virtual enviroment using VirtualBox. I run a LAN through my router 10.0.0.1 is my gateway. Of course I have my public IP...
View Article[help] can't access web Proxmox
Dear, I've installed heartbeat package in proxmox 3.0. but after that i can't access my proxmox web?. can anyone give me solution?.
View ArticleTape Drive SCSI pass-through
Hello i need to get a Tape Device LTO-3 working. I try SCSI pass-through as described here http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Tape_Drives. But i get allways the Error Message "kvm: -drive...
View ArticleProxmox on USB 3.0 Stick
If i run Proxmox from USB 3.0 flashdrive, will there be any performance loss while running VMs or any other side effect. My cluster uses shared storage on a FreeNAS based storage server. none of the...
View Article[SOLVED] NFS inside Openvz (again), and Proxmox-3.0
Hi all! I'm trying to mount nfs share inside openvz container (Gentoo) but I can't. I'm getting: Code: # mount.nfs -v 192.168.7.162:/data/nfs/ /data/nfs/ -o vers=3,nolock mount.nfs: timeout set for Mon...
View ArticleQuestion about ixgbe-module
Hi, I had an issue on a debian-7 box with the 10GBE-Nic (not PVE related). Due this issue I compile the actual intel-driver (ixgbe-3.15.1) and see this the readme: Code: WARNING: The ixgbe driver...
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