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just wrapped up unfucking a #proxmox #windows server guest that had imported disks from #vmware. it was an arduous process that involved a ton of time with bcdedit/bcdboot. i also had to use dism to manually inject the #virtio drivers. ugh.

i really should document this and make it a blog post or something but i am so very exhausted. i need to do this again with another guest so maybe i'll write it all down then.

#presentacion #introduccion

¡Buenas!

Hace pocos días que he descubierto esta red social y la filosofía del Fediverso, y la verdad… ¡me ha encantado!

Después de explorar un poco, vi que la instancia en español más afín a la tecnología, el software libre y el cacharreo era @tkz.one, así que aquí estoy 😄

Como buen apasionado de la #tecnologia, vengo a compartir mis aventuras, proyectos y aprendizajes.

Ahora ando montando un blog 👉 diarioinformatico.com

Y planificando el despliegue de un servidor con #proxmox para virtualizar y contener todos mis futuros proyectos.

diarioinformatico.com¡Web en construcción!

Hunting down easter eggs & putting them all in a single basket? Hopefully you're not doing the same with your VMs - the new ProxLB v1.1.1 is out, now!

#ProxLB is a loadbalancer for #Proxmox clusters that balances guests across your nodes based on cpu, memory or (local) disk size. It also comes with additional features like:
* Affinity / anti-affinity rules
* Maintenance mode
* Node evacuation (based on best resource usage)
* Best node evaluation for CI/CD (e.g. #Ansible or #Terraform)

I have finally caved in and dove into the rabbit hole of #Linux Container (#LXC) on #Proxmox during my exploration on how to split a GPU across multiple servers and... I totally understand now seeing people's Proxmox setups that are made up exclusively of LXCs rather than VMs lol - it's just so pleasant to setup and use, and superficially at least, very efficient.

I now have a
#Jellyfin and #ErsatzTV setup running on LXCs with working iGPU passthrough of my server's #AMD Ryzen 5600G APU. My #Intel #ArcA380 GPU has also arrived, but I'm prolly gonna hold off on adding that until I decide on which node should I add it to and schedule the shutdown, etc. In the future, I might even consider exploring (re)building a #Kubernetes, #RKE2 cluster on LXC nodes instead of VMs - and if that's viable or perhaps better.

Anyway, I've updated my
#Homelab Wiki with guides pertaining LXCs, including creating one, passing through a GPU to multiple unprivileged LXCs, and adding an #SMB share for the entire cluster and mounting them, also, on unprivileged LXC containers.

🔗 https://github.com/irfanhakim-as/homelab-wiki/blob/master/topics/proxmox.md#linux-containers-lxc

Wiki about everything Homelab. Contribute to irfanhakim-as/homelab-wiki development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHubhomelab-wiki/topics/proxmox.md at master · irfanhakim-as/homelab-wikiWiki about everything Homelab. Contribute to irfanhakim-as/homelab-wiki development by creating an account on GitHub.

My short experiment with #Proxmox PCIe passthrough has come to an end. I tried setting up a VM with my Nvidia P4 and/or my Intel iGPU passed through and as soon as I tried to do anything with #Jellyfin the entire host locked up.

So, I ordered a cheapie 128gb SSD to use as a Talos boot drive. I'll extract the current boot drive and put it in a safe place for now before installing the new one and putting Talos on bare metal.

Sigh. Trials and tribulations.

Continued thread

Next I run #syncthing on my laptop, and on my #homelab #intelN100 #n100 mini pc / server that runs in the cupboard and is very #lowpower I run #proxmox and this also has a #samba share which allows any other network devices to see the media.

With syncthing running, I always have two copies of the media, but for backup I was using #rclone to send an encrypted copy to #googledrive - which I am in the process of switching over to #nextcloud running on #hetzner

🧵 3/4

Been testing out the #virtiofs support now baked into #proxmoxVE. It works, had to do some #selinux adjustments on #fedora to allow my #podman containers to use the mountpoint. Added this policy

```
(allow container_t unlabeled_t ( dir ( read write )))
```

In raw speed it is definitely not a winner - #nfs is easily double the speed. But on this particular VM I don't need the speed - it is nice that this is all self-contained now, and I can actually remove NFS altogether.