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 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
Install pfSense Qemu Guest Agent Rumi, February 24, 2023 Software Versions The following software versions were used in this post. pfSense Community Edition – 2.6.0 QEMU Guest Agent – 5.0.1 Install the qemu-guest-agent package. pkg install -y qemu-guest-agent Once installed, there is a note on how to setup the agent. Modify your `/etc/rc.conf` by adding these settings qemu_guest_agent_enable=”YES” qemu_guest_agent_flags=”-d… 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 GUI webpage stuck on loading Rumi, January 8, 2023 Connection time out!!!! So boring nah? I can’t figure out where the problem is. It works and then couple of hours later I’d come back and it keeps on loading forever. SSH works fine, can SSH into containers as well. Just the GUI doesn’t work. Tried full upgrade. Checked for… Continue Reading
Convert VirtualBox VM to ProxMox VE Rumi, June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 On the VirtualBox host, launch VirtualBox Right click the VM to convert > Settings Select Storage from the left navigation Click the virtual hard disk and copy the Location value for the full path of the disk to the clipboard Right click on the Start menu > Run > type… Continue Reading
Install Proxmox VE 7 on Debian 11 (Bullseye) Rumi, December 16, 2021 In this guide, we will cover a step-by-step installation of Proxmox VE 7 virtualization software on Debian 11 (Bullseye) Linux system. It’s recommended to deploy Proxmox VE server from a Bare-metal_ISO_Installer, but it’s sometimes inevitable to deploy it on a running instance of Debian 11 (Bullseye) server. Setup Pre-requisites For… Continue Reading