Proxmox User Management- Proxmox VE authentication server Rumi, May 4, 2018 Command Line Tool Most users will simply use the GUI to manage users. But there is also a full featured command line tool called pveum (short for “Proxmox VE User Manager”). Please note that all Proxmox VE command line tools are wrappers around the API, so you can also access… Continue Reading
Convert .ova and import it on Proxmox KVM virtualization Rumi, January 8, 2018 Let’s start uploading the exported ova file to the proxmox server. Extract the OVA file: tar -xvf *.ova This should output a couple of files from the OVA container, it should include an OVF file, which is the VM Defenition file, and a VMDK file, which is the actual hard… Continue Reading
Fix on connecting to NFS server from Proxmox Centos 7/Debian Container Rumi, January 7, 2018November 11, 2019 I hope you already know how to allow NFS from proxmox host server. if not, you may read my earlier post: NFS fix on LXC Host Server The fix works for Proxmox 4.x I was actually receiving a error like below: # mount -t nfsd nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd mount: nfsd is… Continue Reading
Enable VNC viewer for Proxmox 2.x/3.x with tightvnc Rumi, December 10, 2017 Configure Proxmox host for TLS connections: This configures the host to accept VNC connections. aptitude install openbsd-inetd Run this to get your KVM id’s : qm list root@homenet-home10 /etc # qm list VMID NAME STATUS MEM(MB) BOOTDISK(GB) PID 101 freenas stopped 1024 32.00 0 102 debpbx running 512 0.00 573304 105… Continue Reading
Proxmox VM is locked (backup) Rumi, August 7, 2017 Problem found- Error show: Code: INFO: setting parameters failed – VM is locked (backup) ERROR: Backup of VM 516 failed – command ‘qm set 516 –lock backup’ failed with exit code 255 Resolution: qm unlock <vmid> Continue Reading
Essential Openvz commands Rumi, May 31, 2017 1. Command to list the running VPSs in a node # vzlist Example: # vzlist CTID NPROC STATUS IP_ADDR HOSTNAME 106 104 running xx.xx.xx.xx server1.test.com 107 46 running xx.xx.xx.xx server2.test.com 108 83 running xx.xx.xx.xx server3.test.com 109 86 running xx.xx.xx.xx server4.test.com 2. This command lists all (running and stopped) the VPSs… Continue Reading
NFS fix on LXC Host Server Rumi, March 17, 2016July 28, 2018 NFS client on LXC seems do not work. Why? The problem is apparmor on the real machine that block any appempt to mount NFS volumes. In order to try to minimize the security changes on apparmor I add the following lines in/etc/apparmor.d/lxc/lxc-default # allow nfs mount everywhere mount fstype=rpc_pipefs, mount… Continue Reading
Proxmox 4 Installation Issue on LSI Raid Systems Rumi, March 4, 2016 I was installing Proxmox 4.X on my new server systems having SAS disk with LSI MPT2 Raid controller. The installation went just perfect, however, after post installation boot- I was getting errors as below similar screenshot- After googling a lot, found the solution. Here goes it- Continue Reading
Cloning Openvz Proxmox PVE container guest machine Rumi, November 4, 2015December 13, 2016 I first created a ‘template’ vm containing all stuff I need and using a temporarily ip adres. In the network config file of eth0 (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0) I comment out the HWADDRESS line, else it will not come up with another mac address… Stop this ‘template’ vm as it is just used… Continue Reading
Allow NFS attachment on Proxmox OpenVZ containers Rumi, November 4, 2015 Prepare the container To allow a container to use NFS filesystem, you will need to start it with “nfs” feature enabled. If the container is running while you set the –features nfs:on, you will need to reboot it. # vzctl set 101 –features “nfs:on” –save # vzctl start 101 After… Continue Reading