Install Proxmox

Installing Proxmox

Installing Proxmox is done just like you would with any other OS. It is actually a very quick and easy process. The first step is downloading the ISO image. The second step is writing this to a USB drive (or you can burn it to a DVD if you wish). The last step is installing it on your server.

Step 1: Download Proxmox: https://proxmox.com/en/downloads/category/iso-images-pve (Intel/AMD CPU)

https://github.com/jiangcuo/Proxmox-Port#8-installtion (Apple CPUs)

Step 2: Write the ISO Image to USB Drive. For Windows I like Rufus. For Mac OS I like balenaEtcher.

Step: Boot Server off USB Drive and install.

I know that at home you probably don't have an old computer system laying around that you can just use to install Proxmox on. We can still install Proxmox as a VM on a type-2 hypervisor! The process will be the same as what we did in Module 3, except we must make sure to configure the VM Hardware to allow it to run a VM.

Below you will find 4 videos showing how to write an ISO image to a USB drive using Rufus or balenaEtcher and two vidoes showing how to install Proxmox. The first install video shows how to go about doing this on a physical server and the second is as a VM.

Using Rufus

Using balenaEtcher

Installing Proxmox on a server

This is how you would normally install Proxmox, directly on a server. The server I used is a Dell PowerEdge R200. If you have an old computer that you are not using it is possible for you to install Proxmox directly on it to use within this course.

Installing Proxmox as a VM

It is also possible to setup and install Proxmox as a VM. This requires a bit of extra configuration, but it is possible. Also, the performance of nested VMs will be degraded.

Please keep in mind that Proxmox has been updated since I created the above video. You should make sure to update the repos according to this site:

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

Also, in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ there are two files. I would edit both these files and comment out the one line that appears in both files. This should allow you to update without issue.

Proxmox Apple CPUs

If you have an Apple CPU (M1/M2) you can use VMware Fusion and install Proxmox as a VM. It seems as if the video has a a small portion of the screen cut, but this is the same process as we saw with install a VM in a type-2 hypervisor using VMware Fusion.

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