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Proxmox on Raspberry Pi5

Resources

• NVMe setup: Jeff Geerlin Blog and Heise
• Proxmox install: https://github.com/jiangcuo/Proxmox-Port/wiki/Install-Proxmox-VE-on-Debian-bookworm#install-proxmox-ve-on-debian-bookworm

NVMe

Edit /boot/config.txt and add the following lines

/boot/config.txt

# Enable NVME
dtparam=nvme

Install rpi-clone

git clone https://github.com/geerlingguy/rpi-clone.git
cd rpi-clone
cp rpi-clone rpi-clone-setup /usr/local/sbin

Change boot order

Run rpi-eeprom-config -e, change BOOT_ORDER and add PCIE_PROBE=1

BOOT_ORDER=0xf416
PCIE_PROBE=1

lsblk will show the available device.

Wipe all partitions before cloning the SD card:

umount /dev/nvme0n1p?
wipefs --all --force /dev/nvme0n1p1 
wipefs --all --force /dev/nvme0n1
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=1024 count=1

Add Proxmox repo

echo 'deb [arch=arm64] https://mirrors.apqa.cn/proxmox/debian/pve bookworm port'>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pveport.list
curl -L https://mirrors.apqa.cn/proxmox/debian/pveport.gpg -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/pveport.gpg 

Install Proxmox 8.1

apt update && apt full-upgrade
apt install ifupdown2
apt install proxmox-ve postfix open-iscsi

Network

In a regular Proxmox install this interface is created automatically. At least that was my experience. But on the Pi5, no interfaces files existed. Neither /etc/network/interfaces nor /etc/network/interfaces.d/*. So i had to create it manually

• Comment source
• Add static IP for eth0
• Create vmbr0 bridge interface

/etc/network/interfaces

# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
# Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d:
#source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
 
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
 
#auto enp1s0
#iface enp1s0 inet dhcp
#iface enp1s0 inet static
iface eth0 inet manual
 
auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
    address 192.168.178.26/24
    gateway 192.168.178.1
    bridge-ports eth0
    bridge-stp off
    bridge-fd 0

Restart network after creating the interfaces file

systemctl restart networking.service

Proxmox is now available under https://192.168.178.26:8006