Re:Proxmox VE 7.0 Released
by gkhartman on Friday August 27, 2021 @06:58PM
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Can anyone comment on update/package stability when using the free version of Proxmox. It's my understanding that only the paid license allows access to stable repos. I find the community tier price a bit too expensive for my current home use case (mostly nas + plex).
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Re:Proxmox VE 7.0 Released
by LeoPanthera on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:11PM
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Been running the free version for a couple of years now. No problems at all. I update and reboot it maybe once a month, or whenever there's a severe security update (that I don't miss). It's uneventful.
Same. I’ve been running it a little over 2 years for home/family services and it’s been entirely stable for me. I update slightly less often than parent comment, but have had zero issues from updates.
Likewise, have run it for years on a bunch of machines, never had a problem. I think I've got at least one that's been dist-upgraded all the way from a 4.x release to the current 7.0.
Re:Proxmox VE 7.0 Released
by RamRodification on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:18PM
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Your understanding is correct. See here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_Repositories
We run Proxmox for non-production-critical VMs. Nothing fancy, just Proxmox hosts, iSCSI storage and standard VMs on that (Windows and Linux).
Every now and then we update hosts using the No-Subscription Repository. No issues from that so far.
Maybe if we updated more frequently we would see more issues. I think we only do it once or twice between each new official version release. That's out of laziness/lack of time, not out of fear of issues from less tested packages.
Re:Proxmox VE 7.0 Released
by solarkraft on Friday August 27, 2021 @11:59PM
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Have been running it as a Debian system (realized I don’t need Proxmox, but already had some stuff set up) for about a year and had no idea. Absolutely no problems.