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
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
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
Proxmox VM auto start VM after found in shutdown state Rumi, July 30, 2021July 30, 2021 I was having this strange issue, where a running busy VM stopeed all of a sudden due to high CPU or Memory overload issue. So manually had to start everythime. In order to avoid this, created a small script to start the VM in case if it’s down. #!/bin/bash #… Continue Reading
Force Stop Proxmox LXC Rumi, November 21, 2020 First try to unlock the pct (assuming your troubled container is 101): pct unlock 101 if it works just stop and start again the vm. if it does’nt work (my case) try to stop with this lxc-stop –name 101 if it’s does’nt work (my case) you can force stop with… Continue Reading
Remove Proxmox Subscription Notice Rumi, November 1, 2020 Copy and paste following command to the terminal (6.1 and up) sed -i.backup “s/data.status !== ‘Active’/false/g” /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js && systemctl restart pveproxy.service (6.2-11 and up) sed -i.backup -z “s/res === null || res === undefined || \!res || res\n\t\t\t.false/false/g” /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js && systemctl restart pveproxy.service (6.2-12 and up) Continue Reading
Remove Node from Proxmox Cluster Rumi, September 9, 2020 Step 1 : Migrate all VMs to another active node Migrate all VMs to another active node. You can use the live migration feature if you have a shared storage or offline migration if you only have local storage. Step 2 : Display all active nodes Display all active nodes in… Continue Reading