Questions tagged [google-compute-engine]
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Unable to delete machine image using gcloud
I have a machine image called client-template, so that the output of
gcloud compute machine-images list is:
NAME: client-template
STATUS: READY
However, my attempt to delete this image:
gcloud ...
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Google VM broken after I applied recommended resize
I have a virtual machine on google's cloud platform which I had been running a website with no problems for a few months. Today, I followed the recommendations (as described here) to downsize my ...
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ERROR by trying to build instance via ova GC SDK : generic::failed_precondition: no concurrent builds quota available to create builds
i am trying to build an instnace by using an OVA import from my Cloud Storage.
By executing the command :
gcloud compute instances import myinstance --project myProject --byol --source-uri=gs://...
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Copy from Docker image in VM directly to local machine
I have a Docker image running on a VM instance, which is running in GCE (Google Cloud Engine). To extract files from the Docker image to local machine, I usually do
docker cp <DOCKER_IMG>:/root/&...
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Why Compute Engine SSH access doesn't work with username defined on SSH key creation?
I'm starting work with GCP and currently I'm learn how to work with the Compute Engine.
I've followed the tutorial to set up the SSH keys on Compute Engine but an odd thing happens. My Google e-mail ...
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Not able to do ssh on Centos VM. Used to work earlier
I have a VM instance (Centos), which I used to login without much hastle. Now, from last 2-3 days I noticed, I couldn't login.
I had ssh key configured. I also tried adding new ssh key. But, same ...
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How do I modify the gcloud sdk to be logged in indefinitely?
I have a google compute instance which hosts a computationally rigorous program. The machine is quite expensive so we would only like the machine to be on when it is in use. However, it is inefficient ...
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`systemctl --user` results in "Failed to connect to bus" in google compute instance
I'm connected to a google compute instance via ssh with Debian 9. When I try any systemctl --user ... command (systemctl --user status for instance) I get an error: "Failed to connect to bus: No ...
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How to enable outgoing IPv6 traffic on Google Compute Engine VMs?
In order to test the accessibility and inaccessibility of my home network from the outside world I'm using Google Cloud Platform VMs with Debian 10. In ifconfig I'm seeing one internface with an IPv4 ...
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Google Compute E2 Increased CPU Usage Over Time
Is there a known issue for E2 CPU's regarding unexpected increase in CPU usage over time? I have replicated this multiple times already, and even for idle VM's. This is very critical, it is slowly ...
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Unable to upgrade PHP version on the Debian (Google Compute Engine)
I've been trying to update PHP for my WordPress website on Google Compute Enginee, but I get un-expected errors. I've followed this guide and this too
To update my PHP version to 7.4 but with no ...
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Can't run sudo apt get update on Update PHP on Google compute engine
I want to update my PHP version on my VM and for that, I have to run sudo apt-get update on my VM in compute engine (google cloud platform) But I keep getting an error saying public key not available
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Installing CUDA in GCP VM instance ( Debian 10.x)
I am just coming up to speed with GPU & CUDA and going around in circles.
My GPU is Nvidia Tesla T4. However, Google documentation is lacking
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/gpus/install-...
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Can I use chown to change permission of file on external bootable disk?
I accidentally changed ownership of /usr/bin/sudo.
Now I am getting
sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set
This is happening on google compute instance with linux OS. ...
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Port forwarding to local ip is not working in windows server 2019
I want to run Call Of Duty 4 host server.
First I install the windows server 2019 in Google cloud platform.
After that I install the call of duty game server and run it is running on local ip 10.128....
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SSH and scp work with Google Compute Engine VM, but SFTP doesn't work
I've read the other questions on setting up SFTP (using Transmit on OS X) into a Google Compute Engine VM. My issue is that I can currently SSH and use scp into the VM, but Transmit throws a bad login ...
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Unable to SSH into VM instance on Google Cloud Platform
i have created a firewall rule in VPC network for port 22 by assigning an IP with the port e.g (192.168.xx.yy) instead of 0.0.0.0/0 in rules. Now, When I create a compute engine VM instance in Google ...
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Google Compute Engine: in your experience, is f1-micro free?
Does anyone have billing-related experience with the f1-micro VM instance on Google Cloud Platform?
I observe from the document on always-free GCP services that in certain regions, it is free (up to ...
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ssh stops working on CentOS 8 (GCE VM)
ssh stops working on CentOS 8 (GCE VM)
I had ssh working correctly with a pub/private key pair working just fine for two days on a GCE CentOS 8 VM, and it stopped working.
Now I get:
Permission ...
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Copy files using WinSCP: Permission denied
Platform: Google Compute Engine
VM instance: pytorch-latest-gpu-20190911
login command: $ gcloud compute ssh jupyter@my-fastai-instance -- -L 8080:localhost:8080
In order to save GCP billing time, ...
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GCP Instance group with less than requested instances for a long time
I have a GKE cluster with a single node pool, and the associated instance group has been with less than the required number of instances for more than 12h, recently it changed to 0 instances.
I see ...
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Google Cloud Compute MongoDB Deployment security issue and keyFile issue
I've ran into this super annoying issue today.
Basically, I have setup a MongoDB database using the GCP Marketplace offering. It sets up a primary node, secondary, and an arbiter. Which is super cool....
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Create a GCP Kubernetes Cluster from existing config?
I have a GKE cluster.. I'd like to download this config and keep it in my local repository so that I may later recreate this in other projects/environments.
Is there a way to do this?
I was able to ...
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Cloud Migration from AWS to GCP using Velostrata
During the VM Migration from AWS to GCP Cloud, the process is failing with the error:
Finished job: StartFullMigration on VM: i-0240124484b1xxxxx, result: Failed, reason: [Connecting to Importer. ...
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How can I upgrade the openGL version on a compute engine VM on GCP?
GCP Compute Engine Machine info
- Windows server 2016
- Xeon (R) 2Ghz 8 cores
- RAM 7.2 GB
- 1 Nvidia Tesla T4 Virtual workstation GPU
- Connection using RDP
I'm trying to install Blender (3d ...
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I have accidentally delete allow on ssh from ufw
I have configured a flask app on Googles compute engine/ vm instances and when I removed 'Nginx HTTP' rules from ufw, I accidentaly removed 'OpenSSH' rule also.
When I try to connect to ssh ssh: ...
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Using TeamViewer to connect to Windows Server VM instance in Google Compute Engine
TeamViewer is installed in my Windows Server in GCE. For some reason, I can connect through TeamViewer only when I or another user is connected to the VM through Windows Remote Desktop. When the RDP ...
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Missing icons when installing zsh and powerlevel9k on Google compute instance?
I found this article on zsh and thought it looked interesting to have a nicer gui on command prompts so installed it via their instructions.
Following the installation I've got missing icons as ...
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Compute Engine access SSH Console
It is not possible from the GCP web console to access my instance of the comute engine via SSH. Do you have any way to access? I do not have root keys.enter image description here
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Google Compute Engine SSH - different username after switching to OS Login
I created a Compute Engine VM (Ubuntu 18.04), and when I log into it using the SSH button in the VM instances list I'm logged in as user username.
After a while, I realised I needed to be able to use ...
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Google Compute Engine SSH - different username after switching to OS Login [duplicate]
I created a Compute Engine VM (Ubuntu 18.04), and when I log into it using the SSH button in the VM instances list I'm logged in as user username.
After a while, I realised I needed to be able to use ...
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What does it mean if SSH hangs after `Connection Established`?
I use a Google Cloud VM and every once in a while I switch back to my terminal and see my ssh session has frozen. When I then try to reconnect
ssh -v -i ~/.ssh/key user@host.domain
It shows this:
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CENT OS 7 on Google Cloud sda1 is full of nothing?
I am on Google Cloud Linux CENTOS 7 Guest. I'm running out of disk! How is this possible? I don't use 25% what they say I do? (it looks about ~10Gb)
# du --max-depth=1 --human-readable / | sort --...
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FTP to Google cloud VM using sftp (FTP over SSH) *Simple Way*
So I have somehow waded my way through the heavily stinking gcloud sdk documentation, and managed to create a VM and connect to it. Now I wanted to upload some files to it, but as you'd imagine google ...
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Copy files from GCP project to Google Cloud VM Instance
I have uploaded files to Google project in my home directory :
I have an instance called sentiment-instance-1
I want to copy the file sentiment_insights.zip from google project social-media-analysis-...
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How to connect to a nested VM running on GCE instance directly from the internet
I have a nested VM running on a Google Cloud instance for the purpose of providing access to a legacy application in a redundant environment. Networking is working between the host and guest, and ...
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GCP compute Engine SSH permissions Issue
Hi Everyone i've been banging my head against this issue all day and all the solutions seem to be tackling different SSH issues.
My goal is to connect using FileZilla sFTP into my Google Compute ...
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How to use TightVNC Java Viewer with built-in SSH to connect to an Ubuntu Google Compute Engine instance?
I am using the TightVNC Java Viewer downloaded from here: https://www.tightvnc.com/release-jviewer-2.6.php which has built-in SSH support. Using this, I would like to connect to my Google Compute ...
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Assign specific CPU's specific parallel processes on larger Google Compute Engine Machine Types
I've already found this SU question (it is similar but not the same):
How to limit Google Compute Engine CPU utilization to 100%
I don't want the parallel processing to be sandboxed from each other, ...
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Why startup-script runs multiple times in Google compute engine vm?
I don't understand why my startup-script runs multiple times
at least, I think so because after I started the vm this morning at 6:00am
now I just logged into google cloud console, checked the logs ...
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Loading Google Compute image onto VMWare
I'm trying to load a Google Compute image onto a VMWare (6.5) server.
The image is a .raw file.
However, I can't find .raw mentioned in any VMWare instructions, and more importantly, the ext HDD ...
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Import VM into AWS from Google Cloud
I wonder how to import VM into AWS EC2 from Google Cloud ?
There is this doc :
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/
Am more worries about the potential issues.
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Unable to successfully start Chrome using Selenium on GCE
I have a Debian-based Google Compute Engine to run my Selenium scripts, but I cannot for the life of me run any scripts interfacing with Chrome. I have tried installing both Chrome and Chromium - and ...
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Compute Engine restrict SSH user to specific directory [duplicate]
How to create a new user that could connect Compute Engine instance via SSH but only access /var/www/[username]/html
My instance is running Ubuntu 16.04
Currently, I have only the root user.
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php5-curl not getting installed on Ubuntu 14.04
I have execute the below
sudo apt-get install php5-curl
result was
root@digin-demo-app:/var/www/html# sudo apt-get install php5-curl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading ...
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Google Cloud - Filezilla FTP to compute engine running Plesk
With my current set up I have a Google Cloud compute engine machine running Debian and Plesk 12.5. The hosting, web space (https) etc... all work. However, I am having some issues trying to use FTP.
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Do startup scripts in Windows Server run asynchronously?
As I'm debugging a startup script for a remote VM, I'm trying to run some commands that rely on the ones before. The errors I'm getting are inconsistent; sometimes, 2 out of 3 steps will run, ...
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Can't ssh to GCE instance after mounting /home
After creating a new instance (+ attached disk in /dev/sdb) and sshing to it via browser, i'm running:
[root@instance-01 ~]# mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sdb
[root@instance-01 ~]# mkdir /media/disk
[root@...
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Using Ubuntu GUI on cloud server
I have a Google Compute Engine VM instance running Ubuntu 14.04.
I use command line through SSH so far to interact with the server.
How can I interact with the Ubuntu VM via a graphical interface?
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How to limit Google Compute Engine CPU utilization to 100%
I'm running batch jobs on n1-highcpu-32 Ubuntu 14.04 instances, which have 16 physical (32 virtualized) cores. This should be a trivial case (compared to MPI), but the CPU utilization is all over the ...
