Homelab & Vietnam
Homelab, Proxmox, self-hosting — what broke, and what actually fixed it.
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Getting the “Must be connected to a terminal” error when you try screen -x inside a Proxmox LXC? It’s because pct exec doesn’t allocate a tty—you need to…
What replaces SRM and vSphere Replication on Proxmox? ZFS replication with pvesr, plus a few lines of scripting for the recovery part. It’s not a one-click button, but…
Proxmox Hypervisor restarts itself and you have no idea why? Start with the logs and the hardware watchdog — that’s where the answer is hiding 90% of the…
Is it possible to have a Proxmox VM image? Yeah, you can import a prebuilt VM image directly into Proxmox using qm importdisk — it’s not as straightforward…
Your Proxmox host keeps dropping dead during PBS backups after a kernel update — damn annoying. Before you start randomly rolling back kernels, grab the right evidence. Here’s…
Seeing a garbled login prompt in your Proxmox LXC container’s TTY console? It’s a terminal type mismatch—the container doesn’t have the right terminfo entry for the web console.…
A Proxmox install freezing at ‘Loading initial ramdisk’ is almost always a kernel graphics handoff problem—add nomodeset or i915.modeset=0 to the GRUB command line and the boot will…
VM processes stall when rebooting an adjacent node in a two-node Proxmox cluster because of corosync quorum loss and fence delays. Here’s how to fix it without just…
Setting up NVMe LVM cache with thin provisioning in Proxmox is a damn mess if you follow the scattered forum threads. The docs never combine cache and thin…
Agents on LXC containers show RAM usage of the Proxmox host instead of the container itself — it’s reading /proc/meminfo and getting the host’s numbers. Annoying, but fixable:…
