Fixing Proxmox Delete user failed: cannot update tfa config, following nodes are not up to date: Rumi, August 2, 2023 Please check if all the nodes are on the same package versions: run pveversion -v and compare the outputs. If they’re not matching, you can run apt update && apt dist-upgrade To upgrade the nodes. if there’s a kernel upgrade you will also need to reboot the machines. If after… Continue Reading
VNC Client Access on Proxmox KVM guests Rumi, June 30, 2023 Configure VNC Access in the Configuration File Add a line to the VM’s configuration file /etc/pve/local/qemu-server/<VMID>.conf which specifies the VNC display number as follows (“77” in the example below): args: -vnc 0.0.0.0:77 If you want to use password protection, add: args: -vnc 0.0.0.0:77,password=on The display number can be freely chosen,… Continue Reading
Creating a XEN guest and tidbids in CLI Rumi, April 7, 2023 INSTALLING A GUEST DOMAIN (“DOMU”) Now that the Xen hypervisor/Dom0 virtual machine is configured and up and running, it’s time to configure and create a DomU. Just like we did in the Debian 9 tutorial, we will now install and use the xen-tools package to automate the steps involved in creating a… Continue Reading
Cloudmin-GPL XEN on Debian 10 Rumi, April 7, 2023April 7, 2023 This article is inspired and prepared on the forked Cloudmin Xen script updated for Debian 10. However, the following procedures to be followed as precuationary before executing the updated script, which is available in this post in below section. PHASE-I Prepare Environment for XEN INSTALLING THE XEN HYPERVISOR AND HOST/CONTROL… Continue Reading
Create a local ISO SR at XCP-NG Rumi, March 22, 2023 From the CLI: Create a directory on the local filesystem to storage your ISOs Copy/move ISOs to this new location Create the ISO SR using xe sr-create You can add or update ISOs later by placing them into the directory you created in step 1 Rescan the SR if you… Continue Reading
Install Xen Orchestra on Ubuntu 20 Rumi, March 21, 2023 Prework apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade Node.js For this particular installation node 16 is needed to be installed. Lets install- Add NodeSource PPA This command will add PPA sources required to be able to install NodeJS 16 on your Ubuntu 20.04 installation: curl -s https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo bash Install NodeJS… Continue Reading
Extreme slow internet speed pfsense over proxmox Rumi, February 16, 2023 For a qemu proxmox guest PFSense acts weriedly with the network speed- it gets extremely slow. So her goes the little tweaks that worked for me- First, I chose Intel E1000 Interfaces instead VirtIO. Second, in the PFSense webconsole- In pfSense GUI, System > Advanced > Networking > Tick on-… Continue Reading
Force stop xen vm using command line Rumi, February 6, 2023July 8, 2023 Instructions Disable High Availability (HA) so you don’t run into issues. Log into the Xenserver host that is running your VM with issues via ssh or console via XenCenter. Run the following command to list VMs and their UUIDs xe vm-list resident-on=<uuid_of_host> First you can try just the normal shutdown… Continue Reading
Perfect Proxmox Template with Cloud Image and Cloud Init Rumi, January 28, 2023January 30, 2023 Instructions Choose your Ubuntu Cloud Image. Here in this example will use ubuntu cloud-init image. Download Ubuntu (replace with the url of the one you chose from above) wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/focal-server-cloudimg-amd64.img Create a new virtual machine qm create 8000 –memory 2048 –core 2 –name ubuntu-cloud –net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0 Import the downloaded Ubuntu… Continue Reading
Install VirtualBox legacy version 5.x on CentOS 7 Rumi, June 11, 2022 Install Dependencies Install Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) # sudo yum install epel-release wget -y Install Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) # sudo yum –enablerepo=epel install dkms -y This will install quite a few packages: Install Development Tools # sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools” -y Continue Reading