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ProxMox Notes


Post-Install Tasks

Disable/remove the annoying "no subscription" message that pops during login

Visit https://free-pmx.pages.dev/tools/free-pmx-no-subscription/ and install the package located there.

Set up notification emails

Datacenter > Notifications

Set up remote syslogging

apt update && apt -y install rsyslog

Once installed, edit /etc/rsyslog.conf and add the following section to the bottom; provide the proper IP address where noted:

# Remote syslog config
*.info;daemon.notice;authpriv.* @<log aggregator IP>:514

Install lshw

apt update && apt -y install lshw

Suppress repeated smartd alerts

Edit /etc/smartd.conf and add entries such as the following:

/dev/sda -C 197+ -C 198+

This will cause smartd to send emails only if the selected parameters increment; otherwise emails get sent every 24 hours as long as the values remain non-zero (which they always will once they aren't).


Useful Notes and Tips

CLI command qm is your friend. List/manipulate VMs and such with this utility.

Enable remote VNC login ability to ProxMox guests

Edit the file - /etc/pve/local/qemu-server/<VMID>.conf

Add args: -vnc 0.0.0.0:77 to the end of the file (choose a unique number after the : for each guest)

A VNC connection to the guest is now possible by specifying the host IP address and the port chosen (“5977” in the example above).

ZFS Stuff

zfs get mounted,mountpoint,canmount
zfs list

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/task-error-timeout-no-zvol-device-link-for-vm-700-disk-0-found-after-300-sec-found.106242/

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/after-reboot-one-vm-fails-to-start-due-to-task-error-timeout-no-zvol-device-link-for-vm-125-disk-0-found-after-300-sec-found.134434/

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/after-update-and-reboot-vm-will-no-longer-start.165575/