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VM becomes unresponsive during Veeam backup: fix I/O starvation, VSS, and cgroup limits

VM becomes unresponsive during Veeam backup? It's usually I/O starvation from the agent eating disk bandwidth, or VSS freezing the filesystem.

NguyenOctober 9, 20263 min read

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Proxmox LXC desktop works if you handle GPU and audio right. Here's the setup that actually runs a full Linux desktop in a container without the VM

NguyenOctober 9, 20262 min read

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The Proxmox dark theme makes selected and hovered grid rows look identical. Here's a CSS override that restores the distinction.

NguyenOctober 8, 20261 min read

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Proxmox export VM as OVA isn't in the GUI, but you can build a valid OVA from a VM with qm and tar. LXC containers can't be OVA at all.

NguyenOctober 8, 20262 min read

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Proxmox has no official desktop client. You manage it through the web UI at port 8006. Here's what that looks like day to day, plus a few workable

NguyenOctober 7, 20262 min read

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Cannot connect to port 8006 to access browser GUI? Start in the shell: check pveproxy, the network bind, and firewall rules in that order.

NguyenOctober 7, 20262 min read

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USB passthrough fails mid-flash because the device resets. Pass through the whole USB controller instead of a single device to fix it.

NguyenOctober 6, 20262 min read

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Migrate VM OS to physical device with dd and qemu-img, then fix the bootloader. Here's the Proxmox V2P process that actually works.

NguyenOctober 6, 20262 min read

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Proxmox GUI not opening but CLI does? It's usually pveproxy, pvedaemon, certs, or firewall. Here's the CLI path to find which one.

NguyenOctober 5, 20261 min read

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Trouble with node crashing in Proxmox? Work through this checklist: check logs, memory, storage, and hardware. Here's what to look at first.

NguyenOctober 5, 20261 min read