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
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
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
Install Proxmox 7 on Debian 12 Rumi, August 9, 2023 Install a standard Debian Bookworm, for details consider the Debian installation guide, and configure a static IP. Note: The Debian installer performs network configuration by IPv6 autoconfiguration and DHCP by default, if available. To force manual network configuration in the UEFI installer, press E and add netcfg/disable_autoconfig=true to the linux command line. For the… Continue Reading
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