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====== Proxmox - Guests (VMs and Containers) - Convert a Privileged LXC Container to Unprivileged ======

<WRAP info>
**NOTE:**  You cannot just shut the container down, go into the GUI and mark it unprivileged.

Instead, create a backup of the container, and then make a new container from that backup unprivileged.

</WRAP>

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<code bash>
pct restore 1234 /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-lxc-5678-2021_02_03-10_11_12.tar.gz -ignore-unpack-errors 1 -unprivileged
</code>

<WRAP info>
**NOTE:**  where

  * The 1234 is the new container ID.
  * The 5678 in the backup file is the old container ID.
    * The restore could be set to overwrite the previous container with the restore, but it is safer to just create a new container and then shutdown the old one.

</WRAP>

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===== Troubleshooting Errors =====

If an error is seen:

<code bash>
400 Parameter verification failed.
storage: storage 'local' does not support container directories
</code>

then storage needs to be specified.

<code bash>
pct restore 1234 /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-lxc-5678-2021_02_03-10_11_12.tar.lzo -ignore-unpack-errors 1 -unprivileged --storage local-zfs
</code>

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===== References =====

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Unprivileged_LXC_containers