Links

Commands

Get PVE version

pveversion -v  | head -n 2

qm Qemu Manager

pvesm Storage manager

Check

pvesm scan

pveperf

pvecm

pvesh

pvesh get /cluster/resources

pvesh get /cluster/resources --output-format json-pretty

Documentation

Proxmox API

Invalid token name

pve uses separator '=', but pbs wants ':'

Directory structure

/etc/pve

/etc/pve/qemu-server

The VM configs

vmstate? sems related to snapshots

/var/lib/vz

/var/lib/vz/template/iso

Proxmox cluster

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cluster_Manager

Cluster manager

pvecm status
pvecm nodes

HA status

ha-manager status

Monitoring proxmox with zabbix

https://github.com/takala-jp/zabbix-proxmox

HOWTO

Get VM name by ID

grep '^name:' /etc/pve/nodes/*/qemu-server/$ID.conf | awk '{print $2}'

and

pvesh get /cluster/resources -type vm --output-format yaml | egrep -i 'vmid|name' | sed 's@.*:@@'

Clustering

Show cluster status

pvecm status

It seems relatively safe to restart corosync

Sysctl settings for kvm guests

Still investigating, going for /etc/sysctl.d/50-kvmguest.conf

vm.vfs_cache_pressure=30
vm.swappiness=5

Installing proxmox via PXE

https://github.com/morph027/pve-iso-2-pxe

Disks

Identify disks in linux guest

lsblk -o +SERIAL

Suspend or hibernate

Suspend

Suspend does not turn off your computer. It puts the computer and all peripherals on a low power consumption mode. If the battery runs out or the computer turns off for some reason, the current session and unsaved changes will be lost.

qm suspend

in GUI: sleep

qm status: paused

Hibernate

Hibernate saves the state of your computer to the hard disk and completely powers off. When resuming, the saved state is restored to RAM.

qm suspend to disk

or in GUI: Hibe

FAQ

Error messages

Proxmox API call failed: Couldn't authenticate user: zabbix@pve

Funky characters in password string?

Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

Just that, check your DNS

https://blog.jenningsga.com/proxmox-keeping-quorum-with-qdevices/

https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvecm.html#_corosync_external_vote_support

corosync-qdevice[11695]: Can't read quorum.device.model cmap key

On the qdevice node

Check corosync-cmapctl ?

also see https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvecm.html#_corosync_external_vote_support

"Quorum: 2 Activity blocked"

In my case this meant boot up second real node first

On working node:

corosync-cmapctl | grep quorum.device
quorum.device.model (str) = net
quorum.device.net.algorithm (str) = ffsplit
quorum.device.net.host (str) = 192.168.178.2
quorum.device.net.tls (str) = on
quorum.device.votes (u32) = 1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/corosync-qdevice/+bug/1733889

x86/split lock detection: #AC: kvm/1161956 took a split_lock trap at address: 0x7ffebcb378ab

Windows guest? Can probably be ignored

Shutting down a node

Should just work. Takes guests down with it when they're not in HA

API calls

List all vms in cluster

pvesh get /cluster/resources --type vm --output-format yaml | egrep -i 'vmid|name'

or json:

pvesh get /cluster/resources --type vm --output-format json | jq '.[] | {id,name}'

Cores, sockets and vCPUs

vCPUs is what the vm uses, equals sockets*cores

Migrating

VM is locked (create) (500)

Not always clear why, but try

qm unlock 111

Replication

missing replicate feature on volume 'local-lvm

looks like replication of lvm isn't supported

Check if qemu agent is running

See if IP is shown under Summary, also

qm agent 105 ping

qm agent ping return values

0: OK

2: VM not running

255: No QEMU guest agent configured (just disabled in vm config?) (QEMU guest agent is not running would only show then enabledin in config?)

When VM is not running, GUI claims agent not running

Move to unused disk

If you moved disk, and decided to move back to the old one:

detach current disk
select the unused disk
click Add

Stop all proxmox services

systemctl stop pve-cluster systemctl stop pvedaemon systemctl stop pveproxy systemctl stop pvestatd

Storage (xx) not available on selected target

probably some storage mounted only on one node, so not clustered

switch to community repository

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list 
#deb https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pve-enterprise

echo "deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pve-no-subscription" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-no-subscription.list

apt update

W: (pve-apt-hook) You are attempting to remove the meta-package 'proxmox-ve'!

cehck sources.list :)

Storage

Add local disk or LV to vm

That would be passtrough

qm set 101 -scsi1 /dev/mapper/somevolume

Make sure node node can't migrate: ?? PVE won't try that anyway, but still

fstrim guests

qm guest <ID> fstrim

qmp command 'guest-fstrim' failed - got timeout

seems to be a windows thing

qcow image bigger than assigned disk

Probably snapshots

Backups

PBS GC & Prune scheduling

https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/prune-simulator/

qmp command 'backup' failed - got timeout

https://github.com/proxmox/qemu/blob/master/qmp-commands.hx

proxmox-backup-client

export PBS_REPOSITORY="backup@pbs@pbs-server:backuprepo"

proxmox-backup-client snapshot list

proxmox-backup-client prune vm/101 --dry-run --keep-daily 7 --keep-weekly 3

proxmox-backup-client garbage-collect

dirty-bitmap status: existing bitmap was invalid and has been cleared

https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/interop/bitmaps.html

unexpected property 'prune-backups' (500)

When for example Add: iSCSI Uncheck "Keep all backups" in "Backup retention"

FAILED 00:00:02 unable to activate storage

TODO

VM 101 Backup failed: VM is locked (snapshot)

Check if there's no snapshot running (how?)

qm unlock 101

qmp command 'blockdev-snapshot-delete-internal-sync' failed - got timeout

Another job for

qm unlock 101

can't acquire lock '/var/run/vzdump.lock' - got timeout

Check if vzdump is running, otherwise kill it (cluster?)

VM 101 Backup failed::= VM is locked (snapshot-delete)

Check /etc/pve/qemu-server/101.conf for 'snapstate'

If that says 'delete' for a snapshot try deleting the snapshot:

qm delsnapshot 101 snapname

If that throws like Failed to find logical volume 'pve/snap_vm-101-disk-0_saving'

 qm delsnapshot 101 snapname --force

to get it out of 101.conf

qmp command 'query-backup' failed - got wrong command id

Restoring single file from (PBS) backup

Check Mounting of archives with fuse

Requires package proxmox-backup-file-restore:

proxmox-file-restore

Error: VM quit/powerdown failed - got timeout

qm stop VMID

if that complains about lock, remove the lock and try again

You have not turned on protection against thin pools running out of space.

serial console from command line

qm terminal <id}

enable serial console in guest

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Serial_Terminal

looks like this is not needed:

systemctl enable serial-getty@ttyS0.service

in /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=ttyS0 console=tty0"

ttyS0 is for qm terminal, tty0 is for the "console" buttion in UI

debian based

update-grub

redhat based

grub2-mkconfig --output=/boot/grub2/grub.cfg

add

serial0: socket

to /etc/pve/qemu-server/[vmid].conf and restart

agetty: /dev/ttyS0: not a device

systemctl status useless again, means the serial bit is missing from <vmid>.conf

TASK ERROR: command 'apt-get update' failed: exit code 100

subtle way of telling you to get subscription of at least change the sources list

Import vmdk to lvm

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu/KVM_Virtual_Machines#_importing_virtual_machines_and_disk_images

Can't apply changes to memory allocation

Maybe try enabling NUMA in CPU settings

Adding hardware shows orange

something is not supported (Options->Hotplug)

"Connection error 401: no ticket"

Login session expired?

can't lock file '/var/lock/qemu-server/lock-102.conf' - got timeout (500)

Maybe someone else has/had webui open, otherwise just remove it

TASK ERROR: Can't use string ("keep-all=0,keep-last=3") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/VZDump.pm line 502.

Classic, means incorrect syntax in your /etc/pve/storage.cfg

The current guest configuration does not support taking new snapshots

You're using raw instead of qcow2. Convert: Hardware->Hard disk "Move Disk"

WARNING: Device /dev/dm-21 not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.

Until someone fixes it:

udevadm trigger

Also look for link to dm-21 in /dev/disk/by-id

"connection error - server offline?"

Try reconnection browser

Find vm name by id

qm config 100 | grep '^name:' | awk '{print $2}'

or a bit cruder"

grep name: /etc/pve/nodes/*/qemu-server/101.conf |head -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 2

Started Proxmox VE replication runner.

??

Find ID by name

grep -l "name: <NAME>"  /etc/pve/nodes/*/qemu-server/*conf| sed 's/^.*\/\([0-9]*\)\.conf/\1/g'

Can't migrate VM with local CD/DVD

Remove the CD :)

Memory allocated to VMs

qm list|egrep -v "VM|stopped" | awk '{ sum+=$4 } END { print sum }'

Ceph

Got timeout(500)