Sometimes we have mental blockages. Using debian distros since 2005. After struggling with networking on a debian 12/proxmox 8 setup, I got things kind of working with the Masquerade (NAT) section. My VMs could hit the internet but could not hit my local network! This video made it SO EASY. Thank you!
I used Ubuntu server in the past to achieve a unique partition setup, then installed Proxmox. I put my boot partition on a sata drive and / on an NVME. I had to do it this way to leverage an NVME on an old machine that didn’t support NVME Boot. Worked well, Linux rocks!
Yeah, it's nice that Proxmox encourages installing as a package too, some Linux-based appliance OSes are much more hostile to using the underlying Linux system as a Linux system (looking at you, TrueNAS).
So proxmox won't let you use a static dhcp-leased IP, one that is reserved and assigned by the dhcpd server on your lan router box? What does proxmox do if it sees "dhcp" in the interfaces file? Thanks.
I'm not sure how well Proxmox would handle a dhcp interface. It seems to rely heavily on knowing the fqdn IP mapping in a lot of places in the software, and although they are consistent with a static dhcp lease, idk if it will try to resolve it using the host file or what
hey man, Im not getting much luck with my Proxmox install drives. I have an Intel NUC with 2 x m.2 nvme drives (1tb & 2tb) I partitioned the 1tb: 100Gb in windows with the remaining space for data. When I installed Proxmox it did not see the 100Gb partition to install Proxmox, but rather the entire 1tb drive, which Im unable to use as storage due to the OS. Whats the easiest method to get thsi working, and I dont have any Linux skills?
The Proxmox installer assumes a full disk to use, since it will partition it fully. If you need to do something different, install Debian Bookworm (you can follow any guides online to help with that) and get it running, then follow the Proxmox on Debian installation. This video is for pve 7, but pve 8 is a similar process. If you don’t need the drive in windows you can partition it entirely in the Proxmox installer, it will leave room for data. If you use zfs (select zfs raid 0 for only one disk) it’ll be pretty easy to manage data, but you won’t be able to read the drive from windows.
@@apalrdsadventures thanks man appreciate the reply. I'll follow your tut and hopefully get it working soon. I certainley dont want to loose 1TB for a boot up OS.
Oh, no need to partition differently to use the OS drive for VMs. All of the installer options will let you share disk space between the OS and VMs. For zfs, the OS is installed on a zfs dataset and you can use zvols for VMs (all automatic), and for non-zfs, it sets up LVM to create LVM partitions for VMs. So just run the installer, select zfs raid0, and you will have a 'local-zfs' storage option to use for VMs.
Is it possible to leave the os prober for dual boot with windows? I know this is an odd configuration, but it's more of a testing setup, not a full homelab...
Yes, you can do that. The downside is that os-prober may also find all of your VMs in LVM and add those as bootable options. As far as I know it won't find VMs in ZFS zvols.
Thank you so much for this video it was truelly so helpful. I followed every step I only have one problem once I try to go to the proxmox web interface with my IP address:8006 it says this site cant be reached any suggestions?
Hi, thks for your video. What is the process to create a second Promox partition as raid 1 in your configuration? I'd like to create 1 partition in 2 different disks and install Promox in one of them and use second partition of the second disk as redondancy. Thks
In your opinion, is the Proxmox solution "significantly less enterprise" than Red Hat's Libvirt? Libvirt was developed before Proxmox. The Libvirt solution is an API that supports several hypervisors. Proxmox is incompatible with Libvirt (PERL vs PYTHON). As you may know, Red Hat solutions are the industry standard, but recently I have noticed the Proxmox solution growing in popularity. Have you used Libvirt as a KVM hypervisor?
I haven't used libvirt, but I've used virt-manager which is built on top of libvirt and it was a good solution for my needs at the time. I was using the computer as a workstation, so having an application to deal with the VMs was what I wanted over a remote server with a web UI. I feel like Proxmox is a valid enterprise solution for a KVM based hypervisor, especially with how well they support the entire system (i.e. good integration with the underlying datastore like zfs for native snapshots) and manage clustering and the like.
Thanks. I’ve been trying to get GPU pass through working w/ proxmox. I have other HV doing this already but I want to experiment w/ ProxMox. As far as I’m aware PM doesn’t offer legacy boot media.
I'm glad you enjoyed this. Proxmox has since come out with their own (textual) guide, which includes more up to date information on the beta kernels and such (i.e. how to upgrade to 5.19 instead of the default 5.15). I usually install Proxmox this way when I'm on a system with a dedicated small boot disk (i.e. USB drive inside the chassis or microSD) so I can use ext4 for root.
They are currently on a custom build of the Ubuntu LTS kernel with plans to upgrade to 5.15 once Jammy Jellyfish releases - pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_Kernel
I believe it works similarly to the (Ubuntu) method where updated HWE kernels are distributed via package updates. PVE is also loading the ZFS kernel module, hence the Ubuntu base which is tested with ZFS. They also list what they've changed from Ubuntu here (note that this is from their git repo which has already pulled the Ubuntu Jammy kernel, but I assume all of the changes are similar for the Focal kernel) git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-kernel.git;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=HEAD
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup I think I picked framebuffer and the largest font size I could It's not necessary at all, but it makes it easier to record since my capture device is always at 1080p
Sometimes we have mental blockages. Using debian distros since 2005. After struggling with networking on a debian 12/proxmox 8 setup, I got things kind of working with the Masquerade (NAT) section. My VMs could hit the internet but could not hit my local network! This video made it SO EASY. Thank you!
I used Ubuntu server in the past to achieve a unique partition setup, then installed Proxmox. I put my boot partition on a sata drive and / on an NVME. I had to do it this way to leverage an NVME on an old machine that didn’t support NVME Boot. Worked well, Linux rocks!
Yeah, it's nice that Proxmox encourages installing as a package too, some Linux-based appliance OSes are much more hostile to using the underlying Linux system as a Linux system (looking at you, TrueNAS).
Thank you for the Guide ... this is very useful.
this is my GOTO whenever I need to create a Proxmox VE
I just set up this Project on Linux Bookworm!
Very good Toutorial! Thank you for the very good and in depth video !!!
thx again, Your videos are very good, helped for me a lot!
Very cool write up. Looking forward to another ProxMox video.
If all goes well there should be a cluster video this Thursday. Hopefully. It's not edited yet.
This is a really good explanation of how to get this working, thankyou. I had tried before watching this and failed with networking 'locked out'!
Glad it helped!
thank you for that! was pretty helpful
Thank you a lot !
It worked on my case.
Glad it helped
@@apalrdsadventures too much, please I have another issues. Please, how can I do to reach you?
So proxmox won't let you use a static dhcp-leased IP, one that is reserved and assigned by the dhcpd server on your lan router box? What does proxmox do if it sees "dhcp" in the interfaces file? Thanks.
I'm not sure how well Proxmox would handle a dhcp interface. It seems to rely heavily on knowing the fqdn IP mapping in a lot of places in the software, and although they are consistent with a static dhcp lease, idk if it will try to resolve it using the host file or what
hey man, Im not getting much luck with my Proxmox install drives. I have an Intel NUC with 2 x m.2 nvme drives (1tb & 2tb) I partitioned the 1tb: 100Gb in windows with the remaining space for data. When I installed Proxmox it did not see the 100Gb partition to install Proxmox, but rather the entire 1tb drive, which Im unable to use as storage due to the OS. Whats the easiest method to get thsi working, and I dont have any Linux skills?
The Proxmox installer assumes a full disk to use, since it will partition it fully. If you need to do something different, install Debian Bookworm (you can follow any guides online to help with that) and get it running, then follow the Proxmox on Debian installation. This video is for pve 7, but pve 8 is a similar process.
If you don’t need the drive in windows you can partition it entirely in the Proxmox installer, it will leave room for data. If you use zfs (select zfs raid 0 for only one disk) it’ll be pretty easy to manage data, but you won’t be able to read the drive from windows.
@@apalrdsadventures thanks man appreciate the reply. I'll follow your tut and hopefully get it working soon. I certainley dont want to loose 1TB for a boot up OS.
Oh, no need to partition differently to use the OS drive for VMs. All of the installer options will let you share disk space between the OS and VMs. For zfs, the OS is installed on a zfs dataset and you can use zvols for VMs (all automatic), and for non-zfs, it sets up LVM to create LVM partitions for VMs.
So just run the installer, select zfs raid0, and you will have a 'local-zfs' storage option to use for VMs.
Is it possible to leave the os prober for dual boot with windows? I know this is an odd configuration, but it's more of a testing setup, not a full homelab...
Yes, you can do that.
The downside is that os-prober may also find all of your VMs in LVM and add those as bootable options. As far as I know it won't find VMs in ZFS zvols.
Thank you so much for this video it was truelly so helpful. I followed every step I only have one problem once I try to go to the proxmox web interface with my IP address:8006 it says this site cant be reached any suggestions?
Make sure to use in front of it, since it's not http, and a lot of web browsers won't try both if you specify a port.
Hi, thks for your video. What is the process to create a second Promox partition as raid 1 in your configuration? I'd like to create 1 partition in 2 different disks and install Promox in one of them and use second partition of the second disk as redondancy. Thks
So you have a small drive and large drive and want to use both as a boot drive?
@@apalrdsadventures no I have 2 large drives that I want to share into partitions. And use on partition per drive as boot (mirroring)
In your opinion, is the Proxmox solution "significantly less enterprise" than Red Hat's Libvirt?
Libvirt was developed before Proxmox.
The Libvirt solution is an API that supports several hypervisors.
Proxmox is incompatible with Libvirt (PERL vs PYTHON).
As you may know, Red Hat solutions are the industry standard, but recently I have noticed the Proxmox solution growing in popularity.
Have you used Libvirt as a KVM hypervisor?
I haven't used libvirt, but I've used virt-manager which is built on top of libvirt and it was a good solution for my needs at the time. I was using the computer as a workstation, so having an application to deal with the VMs was what I wanted over a remote server with a web UI.
I feel like Proxmox is a valid enterprise solution for a KVM based hypervisor, especially with how well they support the entire system (i.e. good integration with the underlying datastore like zfs for native snapshots) and manage clustering and the like.
Thanks. I’ve been trying to get GPU pass through working w/ proxmox. I have other HV doing this already but I want to experiment w/ ProxMox.
As far as I’m aware PM doesn’t offer legacy boot media.
I'm glad you enjoyed this. Proxmox has since come out with their own (textual) guide, which includes more up to date information on the beta kernels and such (i.e. how to upgrade to 5.19 instead of the default 5.15).
I usually install Proxmox this way when I'm on a system with a dedicated small boot disk (i.e. USB drive inside the chassis or microSD) so I can use ext4 for root.
I wonder what the implications are of using the Debian kernel instead of the Proxmox kernel. Bullseye is kernel 5.10 and Proxmox 7.1 is kernel 5.13.
They are currently on a custom build of the Ubuntu LTS kernel with plans to upgrade to 5.15 once Jammy Jellyfish releases - pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_Kernel
@@apalrdsadventures Well, that's my point is that Proxmox on Debian will use the 5.10 kernel until Bookworm comes out (in 18ish months)
no, Proxmox installs their kernel as a package, so a system installed this way is currently running 5.13 (the boot messages show this)
@@apalrdsadventures Ahh. tainted Debian. Thanks for explaining.
I believe it works similarly to the (Ubuntu) method where updated HWE kernels are distributed via package updates. PVE is also loading the ZFS kernel module, hence the Ubuntu base which is tested with ZFS.
They also list what they've changed from Ubuntu here (note that this is from their git repo which has already pulled the Ubuntu Jammy kernel, but I assume all of the changes are similar for the Focal kernel)
git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-kernel.git;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=HEAD
Nice tutorial. But I've installed PVE yesterday and during installation you have the option to select ext4. So you know ;)
Yes, but if you select ext4 or xfs it will install those on top of LVM. So now I have an install with ext4 directly on the drive, no LVM.
@@apalrdsadventures Ah that's the catch.
How did you change the console font? 😄
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
I think I picked framebuffer and the largest font size I could
It's not necessary at all, but it makes it easier to record since my capture device is always at 1080p
@@apalrdsadventures thanks