Technical
Proxmox VirtIO RNG: /dev/urandom vs /dev/hwrng — use urandom, ignore the hardware
Proxmox VirtIO RNG: /dev/urandom vs /dev/hwrng? Use /dev/urandom as the entropy source. /dev/hwrng is slower, hangs VMs, and adds nothing.
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Proxmox LVM-thin over iSCSI without a native storage plugin
Proxmox has no native LVM-thin over iSCSI plugin, but you can set it up manually with a TrueNAS target. Here are the exact commands.
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Proxmox VE ZFS Benchmark with NVMe: What Actually Matters
Proxmox VE ZFS benchmark with NVMe drives: a practical workflow that tests ashift, recordsize, and sync side-by-side on real hardware.
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Impossible to boot any VMs or container after Clonezilla backup, from original drive
Clonezilla changes disk UUIDs, breaking Proxmox storage references. Here's the fix: update /etc/pve/storage.cfg and VM configs to match the new UUIDs.
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Why rsync –sparse Produces Bigger qcow2 Files Than the Source
rsync --sparse doesn't understand qcow2's internal sparse blocks, so it writes zeros as real data.
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Clustered iSCSI as LVM on LVM-Thin SAN: Proxmox Setup with TrueNAS
Clustered iSCSI as LVM on LVM-thin SAN works if you skip the cluster filesystem and use LVM on top. Here's the setup with TrueNAS and the gotchas.
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Freezing Linux VMs and sporadically connection issues regarding a node: diagnose from IOMMU to ZFS ARC
Freezing Linux VMs and sporadic node connection issues usually come down to IOMMU grouping, ZFS ARC pressure, or a flaky NIC driver.
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Marking clocksource ‘tsc’ as unstable because the skew is too large: fix Proxmox snapshot stutter
Snapshots can make Proxmox VMs drop the TSC clocksource with that skew error. Here's the fix: switch to a paravirtual clock or pin the TSC.
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Proxmox container no internet: diagnose from host to CT
Proxmox container no internet? Work from the host outward: check the bridge, then the CT's network config, then DNS.
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mkdir /mnt/vzsnap0 permission denied proxmox: it’s not /mnt, it’s your storage
Getting 'mkdir /mnt/vzsnap0: Permission denied' on Proxmox container backups? The problem isn't /mnt permissions—it's your storage not supporting