This shell loop queries Proxmox for the IPv4 addresses of all currently running virtual machines by leveraging the QEMU Guest Agent. It first lists running VMs using qm list, extracts their VMIDs, and then iterates over each one. For every VM, the command qm guest cmd <vmid> network-get-interfaces asks the guest agent inside the VM to report its network interfaces…
Read More » It was an accidental and welcome discovery to find that there is an available dark theme that may easily be applied to your Proxmox install and looks fantastic. There are two available methods for installation, one is python and the other via bash. The python installation is deprecated in favor of the bash script. It should also be noted that…
Read More » While creating a test environment for three Proxmox servers, one of the servers was cloned before realizing it was easier and faster to simply build up the next virtual machine. Everything looked fine except when setting up the ceph monitors, managers, and meta data servers, the cloned server had two entries. One was good with the green checkmark and another…
Read More » Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) is capable of using NFS datastores although the official documentation would prefer the use of local storage. For one reason or another, there was the desire to use a NFS datastore. I tried several different NFS servers, Synology, NetGear, and TrueNAS CORE. The Synology setup was the first of the three I actually got working, mainly…
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