Quick note to myself (and anyone else who hits this). I upgraded one of my LXC containers — the one that hosts my websites — from Debian 12 to Debian 13 (Trixie). After the upgrade, …
Category: Proxmox
Proxmox related stuff
NVIDIA Tesla GPU passthrough to LXC container on Proxmox
Quick note to myself on getting Tesla P100 and P4 cards accessible inside a privileged LXC container on Proxmox 8.4 for PyTorch workloads. This is the LXC approach — not VM passthrough via vfio. LXC …
SuperMicro X9 IPMI debugging and BMC firmware flash (1.73 to 3.62)
Quick note to myself (and anyone else who hits this) on getting IPMI working and flashing BMC firmware on the SuperMicro X9DRG nodes in my cluster. Two separate problems, documenting both. All my X9 nodes …
Reset root password for Linux Container (LXC)
Setting up Linux containers is very easy in ProxMox, but one of the things that you need to do is set a password when you create the image. Makes sense, especially if others have access …
Making a Proxmox VM in to an LXC template
When using Proxmox one of the things that feels helpful to do is to configure the LXC (Linux Container) OSes exactly how you like them. We all have our preferences of what we want in …
Ubuntu Desktop with LXC container
When wanting to use desktop applications via a container, it is helpful to be able to set up the container to have a desktop environment accessible via VNC. I started this by using the Proxmox …
Simple install for Proxmox on Debian 12
I have been experimenting with Proxmox at home and while I have tried the ISO installer that is available, I didn’t like the fact of not being able to set up the drives the way …