PVE Proxmox Tips

PVE Proxmox is Linux + KVM (or LXC) virtualization. It is freely available from: https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads

Putty SSH ciphers error

If you get error SSH connection error like Couldn't agree a client-to-server cipher ... then you need to upgrade your Putty client (had success with putty-64bit-0.70-installer.msi from https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html)

List and download PVE applicances

Use this command to list PVE appliances:

pveam available

Use this command to download specific appliance:

pveam download local debian-9.0-standard_9.3-1_amd64.tar.gz

NOTE:

The local argument is your storage name. You can list available storages using command:

pvesm status