Installing Proxmox 8.1 on Raspberry Pi 5

[@DigisDen]

Amazing, just used this tutorial to instead install on a 16GB Orange Pi 5 Plus with an nvme, all working well :D

[@DigisDen]

PS The status console works fine too, it shows unknown CPU but everything is loading so I'm sure a fix will soon follow for the pi, also, onboard ethernet is fine.

[@Lotisz77]

Hi, can you help me how to create a working boot ssd ? I also have a Orange Pi5 but for me not working. I try to create this UEFI ssd but failed. Please 🙏

[@Speccy48k]

So cool!!! Great video 😉 Not sure if passing through devices is working. That would be so fun!

[@karpfenboy]

thanks for the timely update, was waiting for UEFI to work

[@Lunolux]

great video, it's because of your video about proxmox and raspberry pi 4 that make me start using proxmox, and now i use a mini pc lenovo for proxmox and my raspberry pi 4 as a nas thx for the video

[@m8hackr60]

Would love to see this working on my Rock 5b... I'll have to look in to it. Thanks for the reminder 😉

[@dominick253]

What up Don? Do you happen to know if it's possible to pass through the GPU? I still want to use my pi five as a TV computer but would also like to edit to my proxmox cluster.

[@jaylils]

I thought about doing this as we well.

[@masterTigress96]

Do you mean from the PCI Express interface on the PI or the built in iGPU on the SOC?

[@marcely1199]

I have been trying that in the past with an iGpu of a nuc, and it has been insanely complex. Embarrassing for proxmox, considering it's supposed to make things easier by leaving the terminal out

[@masterTigress96]

@@marcely1199 Proxmox needs a GPU when booting up. You can *NOT* use it without a GPU until all the services and kernel modules are loaded. Afterwards, you might, with a bit of luck, run a GPU detach script that will on-the-fly detach the GPU from the host and re-attach it to a specific VM. However, under normal circumstances in a regular Linux environment with a desktop, that will mean that the sessions are logged out (assuming 1 GPU is present which needs to be passed through). I don't know what will happen if you successfully do this on a Proxmox machine. Might be worth a try. In theory that would mean you could pass through your single, Intel iGPU to a VM. If I am not mistaken, this might already be possible on newer iGPU's as I recall that the Intel Iris graphics have some sort of SR-IOV but I am not 100% on that.

[@D9ID9I]

You can easily passthrough GPU to Docker container. No specific hardware support required. But virtual machines require special hardware extensions like vt-d. One of the reasons why containers are better.

[@mxie108]

This is quite cool! Is HDMI passthrough working? If it is, I will try to run both android TV and debian in parallel =D

[@ghassanclassic7689]

Thanks for sharing this. Please consider to build cluster with same technologies 🤓

[@c090890]

Is Ethernet already working?✔

[@chrisumali9841]

Thanks for the demo and update, have a great day

[@CraftComputing]

👀👀👀

[@TheBacktimer]

installing an OS from a chinese mirror 🤔 umm

[@bentomo]

Is that the x86 version of Win11 on there? Does that aarch package let you run x86 on arm architectures? Albeit very slow, but this would great to bring up and test x86 images too.

[@due_interaction]

I can't get a VM to display anything. I've downloaded the .img for Bookworm and created the VM but when I start it up I'm getting "Display output is not active". I can't find a solution to this problem anywhere.

[@Jonalibert]

Does P8.1 recognize the Raspberry pi 5 native Ethernet controller after the UEFI boot?

[@JeffZiegler76]

Ethernet works fine for me on 8.1.3. I have not been able to boot any downloaded img/raw images yet.

[@masterTigress96]

Thnx for sharing this info. A RPI is great as a whitness node if you're building a cluster or for very efficient container hosting (e.g. PiHole/home automation).

[@ewenchan1239]

I don't know about it being necessarily "efficient". I guess that depends on what is your definition of "efficient". The reason why I say that is because if you take the performance and features of the RPi5 to create like a composite "performance" metric, that you can then use to calculate Performance/($/Watt) -- this result ends up being not that great. If you are pressed for cash, and can't afford at sub-$150 mini PC -- then ok. But I just bought three Mini PCs that sport the Intel N95 processor, with dual GbE NICs for ~$150 USD from Amazon, put them into a 3-node HA Proxmox cluster, and each node idles at around 7 W (which, yes, is higher than the RPi5), but the processor will also do donuts around the RPi5 CPU as well, plus it had Intel UHD graphics, which means it has QuickSync, which means that I can do hardware accelerated video transcoding, which I don't think that the RPi5 would be able to do. (Before I bought my Mini PCs, I spent about 2 months calculating and tracking the performance/($/Watt) across about 35 or 36 different options and for the RPI5 to be price competitive, I think that I calculated it out to be that it couldn't cost most than something like a few bucks and change for it to make sense to deploy as a 3-node HA Proxmox cluster.) If you're only looking at power consumption - yes. But if you compute a sort of composite "performance"/($/Watt) metric -- then it might not be as efficient, relatively speaking.

[@masterTigress96]

@@ewenchan1239 I was strictly looking at power consumption. Here in Europe that matters a lot more then in the US so this "small" difference actually becomes a lot bigger, a lot quicker over here. The RPI's are not a good choice if an x86 option is available for the same money, with the same power consumption. But the RPI's have the advantage in the minimum and maximum wattage that they require to get things done. If you care about speed or need applications that depend on the x86 architecture, then don't bother. If you just need a simple witness node for your cluster and some extra small microservices here and there, preferably run inside containers instead of full fat VM's, then the RPI's or OrangePi's or whatever, make for a decent option.

[@Reza_Media]

My keyboard is not detected when I want to press the ESC key and I am confused about what to do. I've changed 4 brands of keyboard and moved from USB 1 - 4 on Raspi 5 but it still doesn't work when I want to install Proxmox . I use the official power supply and the unit I just bought

[@marceIlw]

Same problem here...I even tried Raspberry Pi Imager instead of etcher hoping that it maybe starts automatically without selecting it in the boot menu - still doenst work. I hope there will be a workaround/fix for the problem. Ich bought the pi + stuff just for Proxmox :D

[@jamiestables3370]

Snap, i have tried a number of different devices, i see they register with HID, i assume it might be something else though?

[@marceIlw]

Try preparing a normal Raspberry Pi OS on your SD-Card but then just copy the uefi-files you downloaded on the SD-Card. It asks you, if you want to replace. Click yes and tadaa, it works...at least it did for me :D@@jamiestables3370

[@spkay31]

Thanks for this very concise how-to video for Proxmox on the RPi 5!

[@Rgant125]

What OS are you using when you were showing the video?

[@bostocked]

How safe is this port I know the option to self compile is available but has anyone checked as to whether this port is safe? (ie .cn)

[@BeeTrillion]

I noticed you used the default gateway as your DNS entry...... I've been using the public 75.75.75.75..... maybe this is why I can't access the page?

[@CoconutGamer]

what was that last thing which you plugged in

[@navidmirzaei8613]

Thanks for this and awesome . Please tell us how to output the video and audio of any Proxmox vms on the HDMI port of the Raspberry Pi to any screen.tnx

[@wojwoj06]

Awesome! :)

[@christophpelzer4320]

Heyo, What do we need the rpi5-uefi for? Can't we just install the proxmox-port on a normal distribution?

[@dronenb]

Nice video!

[@bhandhitniyomsin7364]

works :) Many THX

[@jbauson1]

Not related to the video question but can you share your Windows Theme information? Looks really cool. ^_^

[@tvo9292]

Great video

[@kkrrll123]

I am getting "Display output is not active; no matter what configuration I use on a Pi5. Any ideas?

[@due_interaction]

I'm also having this issue.. Find any fix?

[@JackyTran]

I’m not sure if you covered this on a previous video but just wondering why you would use a hypervisor. What’s the advantage other than being able to have multiple os running. If you’re just running multiple services, wouldn’t a container be better?

[@MrYungilike]

yes and not really. I'm now running openwrt on libvirt (KVM stuff) on armbian on RK3399 - the kvm allows me to use "software flow offloading" on specific owrt kernel, which can't be working with a owrt container with the armbian kernel.

[@SimmanGodz]

Proxmox can also do containers. If you are already familiar with the gui, it gives you an easy way to do a quick setup.

[@DigisDen]

I use Proxmox on these arm for LXC purposes, I would never try full virtualisation. The main draw for me is easy provisioning but also the ability to use something like proxmox backup server for backups. Using something like the orange pi 5 plus, its also easy enough to create a full blown HA cluster with HA storage using ceph too.

[@michaelcooper5490]

You left out what the SD Card is supposed to be formatted to: Fat16, Fat32. DOS, ext3, ext4, ZFS???? I am assuming fat32....

[@yirdnayisark6744]

Could you explain how to create partition on SD card (boot folder like on video)?

[@NovaspiritTech]

you can use gparted to create a fat32 patition

[@lkusch]

I tried to install it on a Raspberry Pi 4 and I couldn't install it on the SD card, but it gave me the following error "unable to get device for partition 1 on device /dev/mmcblk1". I already installed it on an external drive and it only shows me 2.8 GB of RAM out of the 8 GB it has

[@otislammertyn7343]

Can you run x64 virtual machines?

[@alovegentle]

Can you tell me how to set up to boot on SD card? I don't have boot system on SD card

[@jackyallstar]

isnt that intro song originally from the channel Undecided?

[@NovaspiritTech]

Hahah I checked that too cause others mentioned this. And I had mine before him and also I had to edit the audio tracks to make it sound the way it is, the original song does not sound like this

[@sanint63]

Thanks for the tutorial. In my installation the noVNC-console is not accepting keyboard/mouse. Can you confirm this bug? thanks 😉

[@r4mpage34]

Hey good video I just have one problem I have the kvm Bought the Geekworm KVM-A3 kit and then when I want to install Proxmox I only see half of the installation setup. I can't click on next at the bottom. It's not shown. Can anyone tell me what the problem is otherwise everything works fine

[@djordje1999]

im not using pis anymore but interest that pi can to that

[@AndersBergwall]

What adapter for the SSD connection are you using?

[@kristof9497]

Thanks.

[@thinkdomotic4915]

❤👍

[@MrMilanoLau]

Can Win 10 run on Proxmox 8.1? Thanks.

[@barlasdnz]

Hello. I understand that the fan controller and the ethernet port will not work if we install it this way. Is this still the case after installing proxmox? Do we always have to use the USB port for internet access?

[@longsyee]

wow promox now support pi

[@dominick253]

No they don't. This is a community project I believe. So not officially supported from my understanding.

[@hyperprotagonist]

It’s a port, not official support. Big difference.

[@timothymason5545]

Why would you do it on a pi? New to it. So I am sorry for the dumb question.

[@masterchief5015]

Is it possible to install the windows arm version?

[@alicinomoura]

Can I use the same steps and version to install in my Orange Pi 5?

[@Pharizna]

And for the ROCK 5B? I've installed the UEFI files in my SD using BalenaEtcher (because it's an .img file) but it can't work and the SBC doesn't start. Without the SD the Rock5B start fine because the old operating system was in the NVMe. Help me! :(

[@tld8102]

just because you can.. but should you?

[@taaviplaysstuff]

i can not get the graphics drivers going for the vm's somehow

[@Yarri.Kerckhoffs]

Change the BIOS to OVMF (UEFI) and add a EFI Disk. This should start showing the display of the VM.

[@amorpheuses1627]

Only managed to snag a 4G Raspberry Pi 5 as the 8G versions are out-of-stock. How much of a performance hit will there be compared to the 8G version?

[@NovaspiritTech]

Wouldn't have a performance hit, just not able to run as much vm's

[@porklaser]

How do you get windows running? I got proxmox running great with CTs and a fedora VM but can't find any clues on getting windows arm going.

[@NovaspiritTech]

You need to boot with linaro uefi

[@harimax113]

what linux do you have

[@Voigt_Analytics]

I wish, I could run Proxmox or TrueNAS Scale on my old MacBook Air 2019 (with display damage) as server. Such a waste of money and performance. I've tried to install it, but have several issues with native divers for keyboard and trackpad. Linux is such a garbage OS on Mac's. There is no intention to support Apple hardware natively.

[@DavideRuffino]

It’s possible install this new version of Proxmox on Raspberry Pi 4?

[@NovaspiritTech]

Yes, I tested and built a cephs

[@michaelcooper5490]

Have you tried this on a 16 gb Orange Pi 5? Just wondering....

[@NovaspiritTech]

Someone on here did and said it works

[@michaelcooper5490]

Thank you sir. I appreciate your hard work.@@NovaspiritTech

[@timurleon]

why?

[@tdevosodense]

The win11 vm ? Arm or x64 iso ? 🤔

[@owlmostdead9492]

Just think for a second..

[@NovaspiritTech]

still working on getting it working but does require special actions like using linaro bios instead of stock

[@Reza_Media]

What brand of USB LAN adapter do you use? I tried to buy a 2.0 adapter, the light is flashing but it is not detected in ifconfig

[@MrMaster2k]

Hmm - Downloading an .ISO from a .cn domain - I'm 100% Sure it's Legit & Safe 😂

[@arva1kes]

I can proxy the site to you with your requested domain name if its available. 😊

[@IdAefixBE]

The real question being why you would do something so useless though. But thanks for the tip :p

[@alpharesearch2]

I was thinking the same thing, but maybe containers (LXC) without docker?

[@anthonylester6734]

practice proxmox play books while sourcing "cheap good" GPU for i9 7900k 64gb RAM server@@alpharesearch2

[@eriksandner5750]

talk much to fast, much to fast, there´s no machine gun behind you

[@eriksandner5750]

talk slowly, guy

[@bertbrecht7540]

Why can Apple make 100 million IPhones and Raspberry PI doesn't even have enough street cred to make a couple million? How can they ever expect to go big time (stock exchange) if the can't deliver inventory? Been waiting for mine through Sparkfun forever and am thinking of just giving up on my planned PI5 projects.

[@roberthealey7238]

Because Raspberry Pi foundation isn’t a greedy, cut throat, vulture capitalist funded California tech company their goal isn’t ultra capitalism; it’s STEM education in UK and around the world. There are other single board ARM 64bit cards that you can use if you want something inexpensive and available for ~$100.

[@bertbrecht7540]

@@roberthealey7238 They are planning on going public this year on the London stock exchange. They better get greedy and cutthroat quick if they want to be successful.

[@Airehthpid]

@@roberthealey7238Which ones do you recommend? (Genuine question)

[@kevinj24535]

I don't know what it's like in other countries, but in Germany the supply of Pi 5 is very good. At least if you only need 1-2 and don't want to buy 10 straight away.

[@Tenderbits]

People use iPhones daily and buy a new one every two years. A raspberry pi will live in someone’s drawer most of its life, and most people will never want one. You commie brains are funny.

[@Just_Katy]

Hello this is the first comment

[@kritikusi-666]

questions...why would you use proxmox on this donkey of a device lol seems useless but I guess anything for views m i rite lol

[@zCaptainz]

What a world of pain this must be... I'm staying waaay clear of this

[@memadmax69]

This is cool but none of the RPs have dual nics by default so doing proxmox is kinda... meh...

[@WisherTheKing]

You can just use a usb GBe

[@memadmax69]

@@WisherTheKing Those things never get up to speed.

[@RossPotts]

Proxmox is new to me (almost a boomer). Can a proxmox VM be made to use remote hardware, like a PXE booted system, or is it completely dependent on what the Pi has? Because I could sure use it to just host images, if it does. I have plenty of other boxes to use as interfaces.

[@misat0san]

No, it’s a hypervisor, it uses what is physically available to it.

[@RossPotts]

@@misat0san okay, thanks. I only have the 4gb pi5, so, maybe not SO good for me. I still have a 32gb server, so that may have to be repurposed. I need to rebuild other stuff anyway, LOL!

[@nmihaylove]

A VM can do almost anything a real .achine can. It can boot over the network and it can provide services over the network. That's what most VMs do day in and day out! 4gb is not a problem if your VM are light enough. Might still be better to do containers though.