Preparing Cloud-Init Templates Rumi, September 3, 2024 The first step is to prepare your VM. Basically you can use any VM. Simply install the Cloud-Init packages inside the VM that you want to prepare. On Debian/Ubuntu based systems this is as simple as: apt-get install cloud-init This command is not intended to be executed on the Proxmox… Continue Reading
XCP-NG few basic command lines- CLI Rumi, July 3, 2024July 3, 2024 Run the following command to list VMs and their UUIDs: xe vm-list resident-on=<uuid_of_host> Try the shutdown command with force: xe vm-shutdown uuid=<uuid_of_vm> force=true Restart the toolstack on the host by using the following command: xe-toolstack-restart Restart the host. shutdown -r now If the VM is still not shutdown, you might… Continue Reading
Proxmox Firewall Service Disable using Command Rumi, March 20, 2024 Chrooting and then doing: systemctl disable pve-firewall systemctl mask pve-firewall should do the trick. then after rebooting and fixing your config, systemctl unmask pve-firewall systemctl enable pve-firewall systemctl start pve-firewall Should return to the defaults again. Ports used by Proxmox VE Web interface: 8006 (TCP, HTTP/1.1 over TLS) VNC Web… Continue Reading
Administrations Setting Up a Proxmox Backup Server Rumi, February 24, 2024February 26, 2024 Continue Reading
Proxmox create VXLAN using its native SDN Rumi, January 12, 2024 Prerequisite: You need to have an Installed Proxmox and Configure a Clustered setup. The first step in any installation is to make sure your hosts are updated. By default, Proxmox hosts will reach out to the enterprise repository, so I need to configure the pve-no-subscription repository. To enable that, I… Continue Reading
Importing Legacy Windows XP or Windows 2003 from Virtualbox to Proxmox Rumi, December 28, 2023 Problem Statement: I have an old Windows 2003 32 bit server running in Virtualbox. Since Virtualbox is under decommissioned, it is intended to be migrated to Proxmox VE Before Migration or export of VM from Virtualbox, following .reg file is required to be installed on Windows 2003 server to avoid… Continue Reading
Install Xen Orchestra on Ubuntu / Debian Rumi, September 23, 2023 Step 1: Update System Let’s start the installation by updating all the system packages: sudo apt update Also consider performing an upgrade: sudo apt upgrade -y Step 2: Install Node.js on Ubuntu / Debian Install dependencies. sudo apt install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg Import GPG repository keys: sudo mkdir -p… Continue Reading
Convert Xen XVA to KVM Rumi, August 23, 2023 Citrix Xen uses a custom virtual appliance format for import/export called “XVA”. it’s basically a strangely crafted tar-file. You don’t need this program to unpack this tar-file, just use your favourite tar unpacker (tar, gtar, bsdtar). Once unpacked you will end up with a lot of different files, ova.xml (which… Continue Reading
XOA on XCP-NG import and install Rumi, August 23, 2023 Start a new SSH session to your XenServer host and run the commands below. ### Using curl ### [18:18 xcp-node-01 ~]# bash -c “$(curl -sS https://xoa.io/deploy)” ### Using wget ### [18:18 xcp-node-01 ~]# bash -c “$(wget -qO- https://xoa.io/deploy)” If you are using an old XenServer version, you may encounter SSL… Continue Reading