there is another thread named 'unable to restore an unprivileged CT as unprivileged' ( https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/unable-to-restore-an-unprivileged-ct-as-unprivileged.80004/ ) .
so I have a privileged container I want to convert to unprivileged.
tried these:
Code:
# pct restore 181 /media/pbs-nfs/dump/vzdump-lxc-102-2026_06_20-17_00_09.tar.zst -ignore-unpack-errors 1 -unprivileged --storage nvme-4tb
recovering backed-up configuration from '/media/pbs-nfs/dump/vzdump-lxc-102-2026_06_20-17_00_09.tar.zst'
/dev/rbd1
Creating filesystem with 4194304 4k blocks and 1048576 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 3b2ffc96-0718-4b9c-9c86-507eb6eb7fba
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
restoring '/media/pbs-nfs/dump/vzdump-lxc-102-2026_06_20-17_00_09.tar.zst' now..
extracting archive '/media/pbs-nfs/dump/vzdump-lxc-102-2026_06_20-17_00_09.tar.zst'
Total bytes read: 9804339200 (9.2GiB, 271MiB/s)
merging backed-up and given configuration..and
Code:
:# pct restore 182 /media/pbs-nfs/dump/vzdump-lxc-102-2026_06_20-17_00_09.tar.zst --unprivileged 1 --storage nvme-4tb
recovering backed-up configuration from '/media/pbs-nfs/dump/vzdump-lxc-102-2026_06_20-17_00_09.tar.zst'
/dev/rbd1
Creating filesystem with 4194304 4k blocks and 1048576 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 80b9b482-db2f-4dcf-8602-541aeec6b846
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
restoring '/media/pbs-nfs/dump/vzdump-lxc-102-2026_06_20-17_00_09.tar.zst' now..
extracting archive '/media/pbs-nfs/dump/vzdump-lxc-102-2026_06_20-17_00_09.tar.zst'
Total bytes read: 9804339200 (9.2GiB, 308MiB/s)
merging backed-up and given configuration..in both cases the .conf file showed unprivileged
Code:
:# cat /etc/pve/lxc/182.conf
arch: amd64
cores: 2
features: nesting=1
hostname: squid-deb-proxy
memory: 4096
mp0: /mnt/fbc,mp=/mnt/fbc
nameserver: 10.1.3.41
net0: name=eth0,bridge=vmbr3,firewall=1,hwaddr=BC:24:11:1D:1D:44,ip=dhcp,tag=3,type=veth
ostype: ubuntu
rootfs: nvme-4tb:vm-182-disk-0,size=16G
searchdomain: test.com
swap: 512
unprivileged: 1for us this is not an urgent issue to be fixed. If anyone has a suggestion to try reply and I'll test.
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