Proxmox installation¶

The installation of Proxmox VE is pretty straightforward. It's a matter of downloading the ISO image and copy it to a USB drive using Balena Etcher, booting the USB drive and starting the installation.

Configure No Subscription APT Source¶

After the installation, the Proxmox No subscription APT sources must be added to the Apt source list file and comment out the Proxmox Enterprise APT source list.

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the Proxmox VE no subscription repository.

deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bookworm pve-no-subscription

Edit the Proxmox Enterprise APT source list.

vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list

Comment out the following line.

# deb https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/pve bookworm pve-enterprise

Execute apt update afterwards.

Joining Proxmox Hosts to Active Directory¶

Join Proxmox host to active directory details the process on joining each Proxmox node to active directory.

Proxmox Virtual Machine Agent Install¶

In order to get information from Virtual Machines, a guest agent is installed in the virtual machine.

Linux¶

Perform the following to install the guest agent in a Linux operating system.

apt-get install qemu-guest-agent
systemctl start qemu-guest-agent
systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent

Windows¶

Download and mount the Windows VirtIO Drivers ISO file. Execute the agent installer inside the guest-agent folder.