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f79b6b07-a0ec-4baa-9e1b-4732d104056a solution Proxmox 7 to 8 upgrade completed successfully
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0.9 0.8 2026-02-19T17:05:30.467207+00:00 2026-02-19T17:05:30.467207+00:00

Proxmox PVE 7.4-20 to 8.4.16 Upgrade (2026-02-19)

Successfully upgraded Proxmox from PVE 7.4-20 (kernel 5.13.19) to PVE 8.4.16 (kernel 6.8.12-18-pve).

Procedure

  1. Backed up all 13 production guests to TrueNAS (home-truenas PVE storage at /mnt/pve/home-truenas)
  2. Ran pve7to8 --full (23 passed, 0 failures)
  3. Switched local DNS to 1.1.1.1/8.8.8.8 (Pi-holes on Proxmox guests)
  4. Shut down all guests (some needed --forceStop)
  5. Backed up /etc/apt/sources.list and sources.list.d/
  6. Changed repos: bullseye -> bookworm
  7. DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt dist-upgrade -y -o Dpkg::Options::='--force-confnew'
  8. Rebooted (~4 min to come back)
  9. Started guests in dependency order
  10. Validated all services

Key Issues

  • I/O storm: all guests booting simultaneously caused ~50% I/O delay for minutes
  • Pi-hole 1 Docker container needed restart (UDP DNS failed, TCP worked)
  • Home Assistant got new DHCP IP (10.10.0.215 instead of previous)
  • VMs 105/112 ignored ACPI shutdown, needed --forceStop
  • Several guests had onboot=1, auto-started before manual ordering

Phase 2 (PVE 8->9) pending after 1-2 week stabilization period.