Network Engineering is not just a job. It is a lifestyle
I finally experience a LUKS disk that I could not open. It was not a good experience, but it was a good opportunity to use LUKS header. For this to work, you will need the LUKS header for that specific disk. After the above command, open the encrypted disk like you normally do. I hope […]
IO error while decrypting keyslot Read More »
I have been using VM templates for a while to instantly create a VM and these VM templates has a fixed size vDisk. I wanted to create a smaller vDisk template let’s say 5GB of vDisk. When I do a full clone, I would simply resize the vDisk to a desire vDisk size. I am
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I use Proxmox for my virtualization needs, but there are other use case that I have to run a VM on my NAS. My first choice is to use Cockpit, but I could not get the Cockpit working with Leap 15.2. Cockpit only supports Tumbleweed and the available community repos do not work either. The
openSUSE Leap and virt-manager with remote access Read More »
Email notification. Yes, this is one of the features that I need especially for a server. From time to time, it is nice to know the status of my server, important tasks that are being completed, etc. Also, if something fails, I would also like to know. I have been searching around and the only
Have you encountered the error from the image above when upgrading your Nextcloud instance? I did and it is a good thing that the fix is very easy. Basically, you just need to delete the “.step” file(s). Make sure the folder updater-<some-hex-characters> is owned by www-data (Debian) or apache (CentOS). You can locate this updater-<some-hex-characters>
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Proxmox’ PCI pass-through will allow the admin user to use a physical device such as integrated GPU (iGPU), graphics card unit (GPU), or network interface card (NIC) inside of the virtual machine. To support hardware pass-through, the CPU and the motherboard must support it. Fortunately, my Intel NUC 8th gen supports it. Unfortunately, Proxmox IOMMU
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I don’t really import VMs via OVA to my hypervisor. I tend to install from the ISO file. With the COVID-19 quarantine going on, I thought it would be a best time to learn Red Hat and may attempt to take the RHCSA 8 exam. To do this, I would need a lab. The quickest
Importing OVA file to Proxmox 6.1.3 Read More »
Starting version 6.1, this method does not apply anymore. This has been annoyed me for a while, whenever I add a new VLAN to my Proxmox server, I would have reboot the server for this new VLAN to become active. So when adding or making any network changes on the PVE node, these new changes
Proxmox VE – Network change no reboots Read More »
I recently encountered a problem. This issue is probably a bug in OpenMediaVault 4 script since I can replicate it every reboots and on my other instance of OMV. Here are the symptoms : Shared Folders (/sharedfolders) become empty Docker container images are gone VirtualBox virtual machines are gone What I think was happening was
OpenMediaVault missing files in the Shared Folders Read More »
By default, Proxmox networking uses the Linux bridge. There is no issue with the Linux bridges and it actually works really well. I have been using my PVE for two years now with Linux bridges. I recently switched to OVS for several reasons. OVS can be configured as layer 2 or layer 3 bridges. Linux
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