Homelab & Vietnam
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Improve Remote Desktop MacOS Linux Mint latency by ditching RDP and VNC. X2Go over LAN with Proxmox virtio settings cut lag from 200ms to under 40ms in my
Update hangs at "processing triggers for pve-ha-manager"? Check your cluster state and pve-ha-lrm service, then safely complete dpkg without rebooting.
Proxmox machine version mismatch usually means a pending reboot after a kernel update. Compare pveversion, uname, and VM configs to confirm, then reboot or
Self-hosted workflow automation software like n8n replaced my cron jobs, but credentials and rebuilds are fragile. Here's what it did and didn't handle.
Windows Server 2025 CPU pegged at 100%? It's usually VirtIO drivers or the power profile. Here's the fix that worked on Proxmox.
Corrupted data on a raidz1 pool with all disks healthy? Check the scrub output, then try a zpool clear and a targeted resilver before you rebuild.
Proxmox VirtIO RNG: /dev/urandom vs /dev/hwrng? Use /dev/urandom as the entropy source. /dev/hwrng is slower, hangs VMs, and adds nothing.
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.
Proxmox VE ZFS benchmark with NVMe drives: a practical workflow that tests ashift, recordsize, and sync side-by-side on real hardware.
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.
