What is Proxmox VE?
Proxmox VE is a complete, open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. It tightly integrates the KVM hypervisor and Linux Containers (LXC), software-defined storage and networking functionality, on a single platform. With the integrated web-based user interface you can manage VMs and containers, high availability for clusters, or the integrated disaster recovery tools with ease. -https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve The Hardware
The laptop I used in this video is an Asus G74Sx. It sports a 4 core/8 thread i7-2670QM @ 2.20 GHz, 16GB of DDR3 RAM, a Nvidia GeForce GTX 560M with 2GB of vRAM and a Kingston 120GB SSD.
Things You Will Need
Preparing the Installation Media
Download the Proxmox VE .iso file Download Download the Ventoy installer Download Extract the downloaded .zip file Run Ventoy2Disk.exe Plug in a USB flash drive at least 4 GB in size Click the refresh icon Select the flash drive from the device dropdown Click the Install button After the installation completes, copy the downloaded Proxmox VE .iso to the Ventoy partition Safely remove the USB flash drive Plug the flash drive into the target laptop and power it on Boot to the flash drive Select the Proxmox VE .iso from the Ventoy menu
Installation and Setup
Select Install Proxmox VE and press Enter Click the I agree button to accept the EULA Select the appropriate Target Harddisk from the dropdown > Click Next Set the Country, Time zone and Keyboard Layout > Click Next Enter a password and confirm, Enter an email address > Click Next Give the Proxmox device a hostname, confirm the network settings > Click Next Click the Install button Wait for Proxmox to be installed and configured After the installation succeeds, take note of the IP address and port Click the Reboot button
Installing a Desktop Environment
Log back into Proxmox Run the following commands
# update software repositories apt update # install available software updates apt dist-upgrade -y # install xfce desktop environment apt install xfce4 chromium lightdm sudo -y # create a new user account adduser <%username%> # follow the prompts to set the user's password usermod -aG sudo <%username%> # reboot reboot now
After the reboot, a graphical login screen should be displayed Log in with the new user account Launch the Chromium web browser and navigate to https://localhost:8006 Welcome to Proxmox VE running on laptop hardware
Optional Configuration
Launch a terminal and run the following commands
# elevate to root sudo su # disable proxmox commmercial repo sed -i "s/^deb/\#deb/" /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list # add the proxmox community repo echo "deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve $(grep "VERSION=" /etc/os-release | sed -n 's/.*(\(.*\)).*/\1/p') pve-no-subscription" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-community.list # update software repositories apt update # remove no subscription nag popup sed -i.bak 's/NotFound/Active/g' /usr/share/perl5/PVE/API2/Subscription.pm # if running proxmox 7 sed -Ezi.bak "s/(Ext.Msg.show\(\{\s+title: gettext\('No valid sub)/void\(\{ \/\/\1/g" /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js # restart pveproxy service systemctl restart pveproxy.service # download the dark theme setup script wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Weilbyte/PVEDiscordDark/master/PVEDiscordDark.sh # run the downloaded script bash ./PVEDiscordDark.sh install
Source: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Workstations_with_Proxmox_VE_and_X11