<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; ">> <br>> > - Is it possible to create virtual machines through the PVE API or CLI<br>> <br>> sure<br>> <br>> # man qm<br>> # man pvectl<br>> <br>> also see: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_API<br>> The API allows virtual machines creation ? (I don't see it in the doc<br>> : http://pve.proxmox.com/pve2-api-doc/)</blockquote><font size="3">What about libvirt ? I've seen it is not used in PVE, but can it be used ? Will PVE auto discover libvirt created vms ?</font><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><br>> <br>> I am having troubles with PVE 2.0 installation :<br>> Installation process from ISO fails at grub installation, so I started in debug mode<br>> and at the end, mounted the boot partition (+ /proc and /dev) on /target then<br>> chroot to /target and update-grub + grub-install. That allowed me to boot into<br>> proxmox. Where should I report that problem ?<br><br>What error do you get exactly?</blockquote><font size="3">from boostrap.log (complete file is attached):</font><div><div>Setting up grub-pc (1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1) ...</div><div><br></div><div>Creating config file /etc/default/grub with new version</div><div>grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?).</div><div>grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot (is /dev mounted?).</div><div>grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub (is /dev mounted?).</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><br><br>> Then, I tried to access to http://myserver:8006 but no daemon listens on port<br>> 8006. Which one should ? Apache ?<br><br>apache<br><br>> Apache is not running because of a missing file in /etc/pve/local/... but there is<br>> nothing in /etc/pve, after some research, it appears that it should be the mount<br>> point for pmxcfs, how can I mount it ?<br><br># /etc/init.d/pve-cluster start</blockquote><div>/etc/init.d/pve-cluster start</div><div>Starting pve cluster filesystem : pve-clusterfake start-stop-daemon called</div><div>pve configuration filesystem not mounted</div><div>.</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><br><br>> For info, when I try to do an aptitude upgrade (in case iso build wasn't up to<br>> date), I get the following error (doesn't sound good ;-)) :<br>> <br>> root@infrahv2:/etc# LANG=C aptitude upgrade<br>> The following packages will be upgraded:<br>> vzctl<br>> The following partially installed packages will be configured:<br>> clvm fence-agents-pve libpve-access-control libpve-storage-perl proxmox-ve-<br>> 2.6.32 pve-cluster pve-manager qemu-server redhat-cluster-pve<br>> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.<br>> Need to get 0 B/234 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.<br>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y<br>> Reading changelogs... Done<br>> (Reading database ... 27451 files and directories currently installed.)<br>> Preparing to replace vzctl 3.0.29-3pve3 (using .../vzctl_3.0.29-<br>> 3pve8_amd64.deb) ...<br>> unable to backup existing configuration<br><br>please remove '/etc/vz/conf.org' and try again (I assume there are no existing containers?)</blockquote>No containers yet. Solved problem for vzctl, but not the other packages.</div><div>Everything depends directly or not from pve-cluster and pve-cluster has an error : (probably linked to the other problem)</div><div><br></div><div><div>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)</div><div>A package failed to install. Trying to recover:</div><div>Setting up pve-cluster (1.0-17) ...</div><div>invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of restart.</div><div>pve configuration filesystem not mounted</div><div><div>dpkg: error processing pve-cluster (--configure):</div><div> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2</div></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><br><br>-Dietmar<br><br><br><br></blockquote><br></div></div></div></body></html>