The bug in 25.04.2 that causes the Virtual Machines page to error with “Cannot Retrieve Response” has been fixed for a future 25.04.2.1 release already, but the fix can be easily applied to a 25.04.2 installation. WARNING: ONLY USE THIS ON 25.04.2! In the shell, switch to root, if you are not ro…

[image] Stux: zfs set readonly=off "$(zfs list -H -o name /usr)" Dang…although logged in to shell as root, the zfs set command fails with: “cannot mount ‘boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/usr’: Read-only file system property may be set but unable to remount filesystem” As a result, the second, curl …

[image] Stux: service middlewared restart Excellent. My VM are alive :joy:. Thanks a lot

[image] Stux: The bug in 25.04.2 that causes the Virtual Machines page to error with “Cannot Retrieve Response” has been fixed in 25.04.2.1 Do we have 25.04.2.1 in release yet or is it still pending? I can’t see it to be available.

[image] jtmusson: Do we have 25.04.2.1 in release yet or is it still pending? I can’t see it to be available Not yet.

[image] Stux: Not yet. Yet. [image] TrueNAS 25.04.2.1 is Now Available! Announcements The TrueNAS team is pleased to release TrueNAS 25.04.2.1! This is a minor maintenance release that includes several debug and audit optimizations to community feature…

The problem has not been solved for me. Even after upgrading from 25.04.2 to 25.04.2.1, I still receive the error: [image] My old VMs are still showing on the “Container” page. [image] I tried to create two VMs as a test, but they are not showing up on the “Virtual Machines” page. I can see on…

Hello, anyone can help me to figure out the issue?

Having the same issue with 25.10.0

Err… This looks unrelated to my post? Virtual Machines as opposed to certificates. I’d be happy to take a look though assuming it’s still an issue, I will just need an excerpt of the user’s /var/log/middlewared.log after they have visited the VMs page.

HOWTO: Fix Virtual Machines: Cannot Retrieve Response in 25.04.2

Apps and Virtualization

majorgear December 24, 2025, 10:54pm 10

This might be fixed in 25.10.2 according to this post

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HOWTO: Fix Virtual Machines: Cannot Retrieve Response in 25.04.2

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