ProxMox Notes
CLI command qm is your friend. List/manipulate VMs and such with this utility.
Package updates fail after ProxMox install
The automatic package update script will fail, because ProxMox “assumes” you will have a subscription (silly ProxMox). To fix this, the process must run at least once (and fail) and then it can be flipped to the “no-subscription repository” as follows…
Select “Repositories” underneath “Updates” Disable the ceph-quincy and pve repositories Click “Add” In the Repository drop-down box, select “No-Subscription” and click Add.
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).
Syslog not installed by default
To install:
apt install -y rsyslog
Disable/remove the annoying "no subscription" message that pops during login
Login to the ProxMox node via ssh and run the following code:
sed -Ezi.bak "s/(function\(orig_cmd\) \{)/\1\n\torig_cmd\(\);\n\treturn;/g" /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js && systemctl restart pveproxy.service
If/when the proxmox-widget-toolkit package gets updated, this command will need to be run again.