Proxmox Installation Checklist

Here is a short list of things you might want to run through as you are installing a proxmox server.

12 May 2022

Proxmox: GPU Passthrough

This guide: Proxmox PCI-Passthrough – gareth.com has almost everything you need. The process is quite straightforward. Ensure that the following modules are added to your /etc/modules file on your...

04 Mar 2022

Proxmox: Windows 11 Installation

Here’s how I installed Windows 11 onto Proxmox: Install Proxmox > 7.0 Upload the Windows 11 installation ISO from Microsoft and the latest virtio-win iso from GitHub - virtio-win/virtio-wi...

18 Feb 2022

Google Fu: Shutting Down Proxmox when you get a file lock error

Sometimes, Proxmox becomes unable to shutdown a VM. This is far more common if your OS doesn’t have the Qemu agent installed. To fix this: Open PVE shell rm /run/lock/qemu-server/lock-102.conf qm ...

02 May 2020

Linux Disk Management Tools

Background info The old standard for managing disk partitions was via the Master Boot Record (MBR). This was replaced by GUID Partition Table (GPT). This is more flexible, more resilient, allows la...

20 Jul 2018

Hypervisors

A type 1 hypervisor provides virtualisation on a bare metal server. Type 2 runs within an OS. Type 1 hypervisors are more efficient and performant, but offer less flexibility. Also, type 1 hypervis...

09 Feb 2018