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Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE for short) is an Open Source Server Virtualization Platform, based on Debian, KVM and (LXC for v4 and above, OpenVZ for versions <4.0)

Proxmox VE is a complete open source virtualization management solution for servers. It is based on KVM virtualization and container-based virtualization and manages virtual machines, storage, virtualized networks, and HA Clustering.

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Windows 7 Setup hangs at "Starting Windows" using Proxmox 4.2

I am trying to install Windows 7 on Proxmox Virtual Environment version 4.2-4/2660193c, running on Debian Jessie. I have followed the instructions on this site. I uploaded a known-good Win7 ISO (that works fine with VirtualBox and real hardware) to…
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Why am I missing /var/run/sshd after every boot?

I'm running a Ubuntu 16.04 container under Proxmox 5.2-11. After applying the latest round of patches1 I'm unable to login at the console or over ssh. I mounted the container root FS on the hypervisor and added pts/0 to /etc/security/access.conf…
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Why would a server lockup knock other servers off the network?

We have a couple dozen Proxmox servers (Proxmox runs on Debian), and about once a month, one of them will have a kernel panic and lock up. The worst part about these lock ups is that when it's a server that is on a separate switch than the cluster…
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Ganeti vs Proxmox

I'm system administrator in small software house. I'm going to virtualise our servers. The main reason for doing this is providing highest possible uptime, but probably it will also increase resources utilization. We have two servers. On one we have…
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FIO Benchmarking - Inconsistent and Slower than Anticipated: Are my RAIDs Misconfigured?

TL;DR: I'm having some performance issues with my hypervisor storage. here are a bunch of test results from fio. Skip to the Results section to read about them and see my questions. Summary I recently purchased an R730xd so before I migrate over to…
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How to limit ZFS writes on NVME SSD in RAID1 to avoid rapid disk wear?

Currently I'm running Proxmox 5.3-7 on ZFS with few idling debian virtual machines. I'm using two SSDPE2MX450G7 NVME drives in RAID 1. After 245 days of running this setup the S.M.A.R.T values are terrible. SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02,…
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Proxmox. ERROR: Backup of VM failed - CT is locked (backup)

I tried to create backup of the container (LXC) in my Proxmox and I get the error: INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 206 --node my_server --mode snapshot --storage backups-stor --remove 0 --compress lzo INFO: Starting Backup of VM 206…
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How to migrate a regular LXC container to a Proxmox LXC container?

How do you migrate a regular LXC container (from another or the same server) to a Proxmox LXC container, which can be accessed via the Proxmox web GUI? For example, I have a container created by running: lxc-create -n debian8 -t debian -- -r…
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network configuration (bridging) proxmox

I bought yesterday an proxmox license. All works fine only the network configuration is very complicated. My network configuration: 84.200.50.186 -> hostsystem ip 84.200.50.186 -> VM ip 255.255.255.248 -> netmask 84.200.50.185 -> gateway auto…
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Proxmox Nat Networking Issue

Definition I have installed Proxmox 3.2 and i am trying to configure a virtual machine as a communication server that handles all traffic and forwards them to the nodes with private ip. I configured server for NAT networking with two CentOS virtual…
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How would I add a second physical hard drive to proxmox

I installed proxmox on a single 250GB hard drive and I would like to add a second identical hard drive to put more VM's on. I already tried once, and didn't get very far. I added it and formatted it as an ext4, but when I went to use the disk, it…
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ZFS inside of virtual machine?

Are there any technical reasons why I shouldn't use ZFS file system inside a VM on a hypervisor on top of hardware RAID? schema.png
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Hot swapping physical disks passed through to a qemu VM

I have a virtual server running in qemu on proxmox. It has two physical disks attached to the host using a virtio: directive in 101.cfg as folllows virtio2: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-vol1,backup=0 virtio3: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-vol2,backup=0 These…
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How to migrate a VMWare vmdk to Proxmox 4.4 with local-lvm storage

Until recently I was using Proxmox 4.0 and this was my procedure for converting a VMWare VM to Proxmox Create a working VM. Uninstall VMWare Tools Mount the ProxMox Drivers ISO and copy the necessary drivers to the C:\PVE folder Start the…
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proxmox install on ubuntu

I have a server running Ubuntu 14.04 and I want to install the latest version of Proxmox on it it seems that Proxmox can be installed only on Debian but since they both use apt, is there a way to install proxmox on my Ubuntu Server ?
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