#Install Proxmox

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Install Proxmox VE on a Bare-metal [Beelink EQ12]

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Proxmox Install Beginners Guide

Proxmox Install Beginners Guide - Learn how to install Proxmox VE Server step-by-step #proxmox #proxmoxinstall #homeserver #homelab #beginnersguide #virtualization #selfhosted #selfhosting #virtualizationhowto #vhtforums

Most IT admins are at least familiar with VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V in the enterprise. These have been staples in the enterprise data center for years now. Many are giving attention to KVM-based hypervisors like Proxmox due to the shakeup of VMware pricing with the Broadcom buyout. Let’s take a look at the Proxmox install for beginners and see how you can get one of the most popular…

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Let's Install Proxmox 8.0!

It's been a while since I've updated my tutorial videos, so today, let's install Proxmox 8.0! This is a beginner's guide to the installation, with step-by-step instructions for installing Proxmox, setting up your first Virtual Machine, and important information on Networking, CPU, and Virtualization concepts. Even Virtualization vets should get something useful out of this video.

But first... What am I drinking???

In honor of the 666th video published to Craft Computing, I cracked open 'All That I have Learned' from Adroit Theory... a 16.66% Russian Imperial Stout aged in Maple Bourbon Barrels. This was the correct, and in so many ways the WRONG beer to open while filming a tutorial.

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Install MacOS Ventura on Proxmox 8.x

This is a guide on how to configure and install MacOS Ventura on Promox 8.x.x. (This was tested in my lab which runs Proxmox 8.0.3 and 8.0.4. It should work for other versions as well) Requirements: Proxmox 8.x.x Opencore ISO [ Link: https://github.com/thenickdude/KVM-Opencore/releases . https://github.com/thenickdude/KVM-Opencore/releases/tag/v20%5D MacOS Ventura ISO (You can get this from…

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Happy pride from Proxmox (the vga connection is wonky so the Proxmox install screen is pink and blue and kind of white)

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Plain arch or a distro based on it? :3c (No judgement, I think that's silly. We use NixOS, Garuda, Debian (via proxmox), and working on Qubes. Oh, and Android, plus Alpine via iSH.)

well okay technically i use EndeavourOS btw, but really it's just arch for people with better shit to do than learning to install arch lol. I'm honestly really surprised how much easier to use arch is than people make it out to be

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My EDC for Work

I mostly work remote now, but there's still some days that see me head back into the office. My EDC tends to vary depending on what's on my schedule.

Constants:

a Google Pixel 4XL w/ 128 GB in storage space. Basic comms, mobile file storage, music player, notes.

a Flipper Zero module, which is attached to my keychain and allows me to wipe and clone office-related RFID tags. It saves me on having to walk down to the locked and secured actual cloning machine, with Management having needed a while to come around to my using it. I also use it to control our conference room's projector, seeing as the actual remote is always misplaced. It lets me into my office and allows me to spook my non-tech-savvy EV-using colleagues seeing as Toyota doesn't individualize keyfob NFC signals. I also use it to control our garage door and to head inside the apartment. Oh, and it's also my dedicated IR remote for the media center.

two SanDisk Compact UltraFlash USB drives at 128 GB apiece. One is my Ventoy drive and is crammed with every single OS the office needs, from Linux Mint for the Call Centre to Windows Server 2020, as used by the Art and Production teams, with several variations in-between and a few bootable utilities, such as GParted, Hiren's Boot CD, FreeNAS and Proxmox. Both of them are molded to my keychain using little Sugru putty hoops. The Executive pool being beyond all salvation, I also pack a hacked Windows 11 image file that I've modded to be just a little bit more flexible than the commonplace Tiny11 ISO that's accessible online. Allowing sixteen year-old computers running on spinning rust to function off of a modern operating system has at least allowed us to acclimate the older ends of the Accounting department to modern standards. Unlike the actual Tiny11 ISO, I've kept the authentication suite because y'can't really run homebrew Windows images in an office setting legally if the resulting installation can't phone home...

Admin Days:

my Razer Blade 14 laptop and its associated dongles, running off of Windows 11 Pro. I edit campaign-related documents, review project files and sign off on our dealers having fully-assembled digital care packages packed with everything they'll need to get their sales off the ground. I also confirm the proper placement of documents that will need to be accessible for our Printing associates later. Everything IT takes place there, except for what relates to the Call Center. My laptop allows me to Term into our four server stacks if our checklists detect that something's missing, and to visually report on what needs to be transferred. To do all this, I also pack...

a TP-Link USB-C to RJ45 adapter, which is foldable and takes about zero space in my laptop's bag. It works like any other built-in hardline access point.

a no-name collapsible Cat5 Ethernet cable

a small bean bag. This one actually stays in-office, but I take it out from underneath my desk when I know I'll be watching the local network or mothering file transfers for more than twenty minutes. I am not spending half-an-hour standing up in the hot aisle, no sir.

Call Centre Admin Days:

my 512 GB Steam Deck. It's a couch gaming platform at home and a Linux Terming station at work. Going Linux-to-Linux is much more intuitive for me than loading Windows' Linux tools, seeing as it gives me a complete GUI I can use to guide less computer-savvy call agents through common procedures. It virtualizes a barebones-basic Linux Mint install that I can boot up and peer through if some colleagues report weird bugs or VoIP-specific issues, and I can use it for remote takeovers if things get too complex and require that I actually dig in to fix an issue.

my Steelseries Arctis 9 headset and USB emitter. I'm technically obligated to use wired audio peripherals at work, but Management soon realized I had too many side-jobs to take care of at work to really make the use of anything wired practical on the long term. They're plugged in if I have to lend a hand and make a few calls, but typically operate wirelessly. Everyone at the office knows to ping me on 3CX if I'm working within range of my desk, and to text or message me if I'm not.

On-Site Implementation:

my Google Pixel Slate. This old croaker's really useful when I'm dealing with non-tech-savvy salespersons who need a walkthrough of a campaign's documents or who want a demo run of some of our VR and WebGL content offers. It's a decent notepad on its own, and it comes with its own dongles. It's the PC I'll use to access any dealer's infrastructure and confirm with their Sales Director and Financial Controller that everything's above-board and ready to go.

That last one is the least-frequent of my tasks, seeing as Management knows not to send a cripple halfway across the province on his own. They let me implement campaign materials and check for head offices' go-ahead only for local dealerships, some colleagues of Walt's are scattered across the province for the rest.

All of that sort of informs why I took the Brain Gremlin as a persona, as I'm technically able to crater the company that employs me if I so desired, and could do so during personal or business-related trips.

Failing that, I get to fuck around with our presenting hardware if I'm bored, I can wreak havoc with my fellow geeks' radio-powered desktop toys, and have been known to pull an April Fools on my boss by using my Flipper Zero to put his shelf-mounted radio receiver on his least-liked station without opening the door.

FAQ:

WHY U NO USE LINUX ON LAPPY?

Because Razer are incompetent buffoons that long ago made it clear they had no vested interest in supporting the use of Open Source operating systems, and who made it a requirement to use Windows Update in order to get absolutely anything to work on the Razer Blade 14.

If it's any consolation, I use WSL to run Kali Linux on top of my Windows 11 install on my laptop. The way it's set up, you'd swear it's just a productivity and light gaming machine up until I mouse over to and click on a blank spot in the upper border. Kali's own GUI then drops down.

As to why I'd want to attack or breach my own employer's resources? Having an in-house pen-tester is a lot cheaper in this economy.

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Some of the comments are a little disconnected from everyday use, honestly.

I work in IT, I get it, in a fair and just world, we'd all be running Proxmox bare-metal and we'd be piling on VM after VM for the sake of freeing ourselves from the shackles imposed on us by corporate ecosystems. The thing is, you are not going to convince someone who's already tech-averse to go this deep, this quickly. Considering how most of my employees do everything on their phones and barely know how to turn their work rigs on or off - and most of them are in their twenties - there's a ton of ground to cover.

Here's a small - if still longish - taste of it all below. Click for more.

Start small. If anyone's curious and wants at least one solid stepping stone, consider checking whether or not your version of Windows contains the Hyper-V virtualization suite. To do so, open your Start menu, and start typing Turn Windows features on or off into the search bar. Pick the first item that pops up, and you'll access a window listing all of your OS' installed and pending features. You're looking for Hyper-V. Click on its box, then let your machine restart.

Congrats, it, uh... sort of looks like nothing's changed, right? That's good, actually. Now what you want to do is head to the Internet Archive and pick whatever operating system from your childhood that you happen to remember, or you could even go nuts and pick out one of the Enthusiast ISOs for Windows freaking 7 that some diehards are still putting together to this day. Pick a system, download its ISO file, and then search for and start Hyper-V.

Following the steps onscreen, you'll create your first virtual machine. For now, just hit Finish right off the bat, the program's going to pick best-case options that'll at least shield you from massive fuck-ups, seeing as this is your first time. Pick out your virtual machine in the main window, right-click on it and select Settings. Inside, you'll point its virtual CD-ROM drive to where you download your operating system's ISO.

If all goes well, you should see your operating system of choice's first boot screen in the window that pops up, once you boot up your VM. You can full-screen the program, if you want to fake running this natively a little more comfortably. Don't forget to (ahem) source a valid CD key through entirely legal means - you only really need to Google for this. If you're looking for a Microsoft key, you'll find Generic keys listed by the boatload. If you're trying out a MacOS install, you might have a little bit of a harder time finding the right serials, but it isn't impossible.

Of course, the easiest option is a Linux distro. Distros, barring a few exceptions, are typically free to use and have no copy-protection shenanigans to handle. If that's your course of choice, start with Linux Mint - it's designed to be as familiar as possible to people coming in from a Windows system. Once you've got the ball rolling, have fun with your now-sandboxed OS install. Revisit old favourites maybe, or even practice using Hyper-V's Guest tools to make your host PC and the virtual machine effectively "share" a network!

Later on, you'll realize that there's virtual machines dedicated to all sorts of things: you can run home automation servers, play games or run servers for said games - the sky's the limit, really. Running your VMs in instances on a bigger OS like Windows works on the short term, but sharing hardware resources like this is a huge pain. Eventually, you're going to want to run a hypervisor - that's a virtualization suite - directly on top of your hardware. That makes it much easier to divvy out resources as needed.

That, however, is neither here nor there if you're just starting out. If all you ever do is power on and shut off a PC, start by running the same version of Windows you're already familiar with on a separate VM. Then, poke at that sacrificial system to your heart's content. The fun thing about virtual machines is that irrecoverable fuck-ups do not exist. Save a state before doing dodgy shit, like you're playing a game on an emulator, and then go on right ahead.

Does the VM now refuse to boot? Reload its last save state. Bam, you're done. Learn that system from the inside out, and then try out its Server Edition, or jump to a Windows or a Mac, all depending. Try out Linux, too! You have no limits on the number of virtual machines you can run - none save your own hardware's limitations.

This is the best start to a home lab that you could possibly get, short of going fucking nuts for what's still just a hobby and speccing yourself a server-grade system to fuck around with.

If this really appeals to you, I'd advise picking up Windows Terminal commands, formerly known as MS-DOS prompts, and pairing that with some passing understanding of Bash. These two Command Prompt syntaxes are essential to start with. For maximum fun and chaos, set your newfangled server as a target, deploy a Kali Linux install, and start picking up Network Security basics by actually playing the part of a hacker.

If this speaks to you, you'll have enough on-hand to potentially make a career out of it. If you're just curious, you'll still know more about how to keep safe online than 99.9% of your fellow netizens.

Someone needs to inform the (rightly) pro-piracy tumblr users that it is no longer 2014 and some of the services they are recommending will turn ur computer in a broken microwave that serves bitcoins to shitheads.

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Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches

https://github.com/luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX

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I built a Proxmox home lab using my Raspberry Pi - here's how I did it https://www.xda-developers.com/install-proxmox-on-raspberry-pi/

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Airwaves (Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the aircraft on my screen

Admittedly, I'm a bit of a fan of aviation. Most forms of transit actually, but that's for a different blog. I like aircraft. They've always fascinated me, and at a point, I'd wanted to get my pilots license.

I just think they're neat. I enjoy flying, I enjoy the intricacies of the taxiing, the take-off, the landing, and hopefully enjoying in-flight wi-fi in-between. I enjoy seeing and knowing the ins and outs of how I get from Point A to Point B via plane.

So what better way to enjoy two things at the same time, than by mixing my fascination of aviation with my passion for technology! I was shown this by a colleague at a past workplace, and I just HAD to have one myself. Below, I'll be chronicling my journey, experience, frustrations and wins with tracking aircraft in my area over ADSB.

Our adventures begin with this little nugget - I figured I'd start small and assuming all goes well, I'd scale up. Here's what it looked like initially

Not bad - just on 100nmi of range.

Once I moved to this arrangement, I was getting no more than 25nmi to the south, but got over 100nmi to the north, which was a pleasant boost, no doubt helped by the wall.

I invested in a RadarBox ADS-B FlightStick and the associated dipole antenna.

25nmi to the south, and more than 135nmi to the north. A sound improvement, but we can do better!

And it starts with the roof!

Much improved coverage all-round! 107nmi to the west, 162nmi to the east and north, and around 80nmi to the south. The Pi was in the roof, running off a POE Spliter

This is where I begin to have issues though.

POE Splitter burn-outs

SD Card corruptions

The Airnav stick not being recognised

So I get through the POE Splitter burnouts by getting another one. I get another ~2-4 weeks out of that one. Then the SD Card dies. I swap it over and get about 2 months. Then it dies. Amongst this, the Airnav stick is being less than helpful and is not consistently picked up by the Pi.

Not good.

So where to from here? I saw a few options:

Try and have the Pi network boot the ADSB feeder image from a server

Get another SD card and go again

Try USB over Cat 6 converters and do it that way

Install an Active USB Extension cable

Option 2 was the last option - I really didn't want to go down this route because it's just me purchasing SD cards again and again and restoring backups and I have better things to do.

Option 1 was the first idea - it keeps the power and network up near the AirNav stick and is what I experimented with first.

I found that I was not able to get much love with that - mostly involved with trying to get rootFS off the SD card was painful and difficult and was abandoned after a weekend.

This led me to option 3 - try some USB over Cat converters and give that a go. I'll virtualise the ADSB receiver as a VM in ProxMox and do it that way. And I did - I picked up these promising DOSS USBCAT100 dongles, which on the product page spec sheet advise that USB 2.0 full power/speed can be done up to 50 metres. They arrived, yay, happy days! I thought "before I get up in the roof and use these and find out they may not work, I better test these", and so I did, with my iPhone and a 1.5 metre Cat 6 cable only to see...

Wonderful. It's USB 1.1 speeds. Not great. The common consensus if you look up USB speeds and RTLSDR sticks is that they need USB 2.0 speeds, so this can't be used, and I had to get a return.

So I went for option 4 - a 15M Active USB Extension Cable from 4Cabling. I got up in the roof and ran that cable from the rack to the spot, plugged the AirNav stick in and connected the server and... Something...ISH? The stick fired up, but the light on the stick was flickering, and the data activity lights on the USB cable were not consistent either. Eventually both got settled and off we went.

Off we went to not too much luck. Every 2-6 hours, the stick would fail/stop and not be recognisable by the host.. How annoying... No mix of USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 ports would work. Rebooting the ProxMox host didn't yield any wins - I had to shutdown and power on every time this happened. Thinking it may be power related, I got one of those USB splitter cables that shipped with many external HDDs of yore (pre-USB 3.0 days) to see if that would make a difference.

And it did, again briefly. No mix of 2.0 or 3.0 ports worked, but I DID have some better luck with using a USB power bank on the power-only cable, but that failed again (just after a longer time period), and so did using an Apple 10W USB Power Brick. A 12W Apple Power Brick also didn't work.

So, now with seemingly nothing else to try, I went with a FlightAware Pro Stick Plus. It's been installed for over a week now and is happily plodding away! I'm getting coverage of more than 200nmi north, getting around 175nmi east, more than 100nmi south, and 125nmi west. The amount of hits is also much more consistent.

For reference, for my aircraft tracking, I use adsb.im to track and feed. Make sure you take backups early and often!

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Proxmox 8.2 New Features and Download

Proxmox 8.2 New Features and Download #proxmox #proxmox82 #proxmox82newfeatures #downloadproxmox #proxmox82download #virtualization #vhtforums #opensourcevirtualization #kvmvirtualization #virtualmachines #lxccontainers #selfhosted #selfhosting

Proxmox has a lot of momentum behind it as of recently. We had the recent news of the new Proxmox import wizard to import VMware ESXi guests in Proxmox virtual environment. Also, Proxmox 8.1 wasn’t released that long ago. However, Proxmox has now released Proxmox 8.2 new features and you can now download the ISO for installation. Let’s take a look at the new features contained in this…

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yesterday i installed wiki.js on a container and started writing internal docs for myself. it was super easy to install on proxmox (there's a helper script for it). the admin interface is nice and simple. the only slight issue i have with it is that Themes don't properly work. id like to make it look like my other websites even though its just for personal use, bcs it brings me joy. atm it only supports css injection, and thats not a great way to go about re-styling the entire website. but apparently they're working on adding proper theme support, so hopefully it'll be better soon. i'd recommend wiki.js if youre looking for a selfhosted docs platform (i also looked at bookstack and wikimedia (the platform wikipedia runs on) and they both seem very cool too, just not my particular vibe atm)

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How to install Windows Server unto ACEMAGICIAN Mini PC

ACEMAGICIAN, a well-known brand, manufactures powerful mini PCs. They offer a range of high-performance products in a small form factor, ideal for both personal and professional use. In this article, we shall discuss how to ‘Install Windows Server unto ACEMAGICIAN Mini PC [AM06 Pro]’. Please see how Install Proxmox VE on a Beelink EQ12 Mini PC, how to install ESXi on a Beelink EQ12 Mini PC, and…

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Die wichtigsten Hypervisor im Vergleich

Grundsätzlich unterscheidet man zwischen zwei Arten von Hypervisoren:

Bare-Metal-Hypervisor: Dieser Typ installiert sich direkt auf der Hardware des Host-Systems. Er hat vollen Zugriff auf die Systemressourcen und bietet dadurch die höchste Leistung. Bekannte Vertreter sind VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V und Proxmox VE.

Hosted Hypervisor: Im Gegensatz dazu läuft ein Hosted Hypervisor auf einem bestehenden Betriebssystem als Anwendung. Dies bietet zwar weniger Leistung, dafür aber eine einfachere Einrichtung und eignet sich besonders für den Einsatz auf Desktop-PCs und Workstations. Beispiele hierfür sind Oracle VirtualBox und VMware Workstation Player.

Nachdem wir nun die grundlegenden Konzepte geklärt haben, steigen wir tiefer in den Vergleich der populärsten Hypervisor-Lösungen ein.

1. VMware ESXi: Der Platzhirsch im Enterprise-Bereich

VMware ESXi ist der unangefochtene Marktführer im Bereich der Enterprise-Virtualisierung. Er bietet eine breite Palette an Funktionen für die Verwaltung und Skalierung virtueller Maschinen, hohes Sicherheitsniveau und nahtlose Integration in die VMware vSphere-Suite.

Vorteile:

Umfangreiche Funktionen für Hochverfügbarkeit und Disaster Recovery

Ausgereifte Skalierbarkeit für große Umgebungen

Hervorragende Performance

Stabile Plattform mit langer Historie

Nachteile:

Kommerzielle Lizenzierung mit hohen Kosten

Komplexere Einrichtung und Verwaltung

Fokus auf die VMware-Produktpalette

2. Microsoft Hyper-V: Der Herausforderer aus Redmond

Microsofts Hyper-V ist ein starker Konkurrent zu VMware ESXi. Er ist kostenlos in den Server-Editionen von Windows Server enthalten und bietet eine gute Performance sowie einfache Integration mit anderen Microsoft-Produkten.

Vorteile:

Kostenlose Lizenzierung für Windows Server Umgebungen

Einfache Integration mit Active Directory und anderen Microsoft-Diensten

Gute Performance und Skalierbarkeit

Deutlich günstiger als VMware ESXi

Nachteile:

Weniger Funktionsumfang im Vergleich zu VMware ESXi

Fokus auf Windows-Betriebssysteme

Geringere Akzeptanz im reinen Linux-Umfeld

vmware vs hyperv

3. Proxmox VE: Die kostenlose Open-Source-Alternative

Proxmox VE ist ein Open-Source-Hypervisor auf Basis von Debian Linux. Er bietet eine einfach zu bedienende Oberfläche und eignet sich hervorragend für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen sowie Heimanwender.

Vorteile:

Kostenlose Open-Source-Lizenz

Einfache Installation und Verwaltung

Integrierte Unterstützung für Containerisierung (LXC)

Gute Performance für virtualisierte Workloads

Nachteile:

Beschränkter Funktionsumfang im Vergleich zu kommerziellen Lösungen

Geringere Community-Größe im Vergleich zu VMware und Microsoft

Fokus auf Linux-Umgebungen

4. Oracle VirtualBox: Der kostenlose Desktop-Hypervisor

Oracle VirtualBox ist ein kostenloser Hosted Hypervisor, der sich perfekt für den Einsatz auf Desktop-PCs und Workstations eignet. Er ermöglicht es Ihnen, einfach und schnell virtuelle Maschinen mit verschiedenen Betriebssystemen zu erstellen und zu nutzen.

Vorteile:

Kostenlose Lizenzierung

Einfache Installation und Bedienung

Unterstützung für eine Vielzahl von Gastbetriebssystemen

Gute Performance für Desktop-Virtualisierung

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