Opinion
I run proxmox on two PCs. A dell optiplex and a custom built server focused PC. The Optiplex handles my firewall and the other PC handles DNS and some other services. Genuinely an amazing free piece of sotware. Much better than ESXi. From the networking, to the UI, to the virtualization, it is a great type 1 hypervisor.
How to
Flash proxmox onto drive
sudo wipefs -af /dev/sda
sudo dd if=proxmox.iso of=/dev/sda bs=4M conv=fsync
sync && sync
sudo eject /dev/sda
Allow BIOS to do things
- Set proxmox USB to top of boot priority
- Turn off secure boot
- Enable KVM & IOMMU
- Enable above 4G decoding
- Disable wait for F1 when errors This is really annoying, it will wait for you to press F1 if it detects an error, running it headless with no output at all will cause an error, making you have to plug a keyboard into your server and press F1.
- Disable secure boot or set to “other os”
- Ensure secure boot allows UEFI USB boot
Installation
It will boot, and you literaly just answer your way through the setup prompts. Super easy.