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+ <h1>Install and Run Proxmox on Laptop Hardware</h1>
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+ <div></div>
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+ <div id="content">
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+ <h2>What is Proxmox VE?</h2>
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+<blockquote><em>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. -<a href="https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve" target="_blank">https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve</a></em></blockquote>
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+<h2>The Hardware</h2>
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+<p>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.</p>
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+<h2>Things You Will Need</h2>
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+<ul>
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+ <li>A USB flash drive, at least 8 GB <a href="https://amzn.to/3wkR5ju" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3wkR5ju</a> | <a href="https://amzn.to/3qkrJ1p" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3qkrJ1p</a> | <a href="https://amzn.to/3Nhu9b9" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3Nhu9b9</a></li>
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+</ul>
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+<h2>Preparing the Installation Media</h2>
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+<ol>
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+ <li>Download the Proxmox VE .iso file <a href="https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
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+ <li>Download the Ventoy installer <a href="https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
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+ <li>Extract the downloaded .zip file</li>
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+ <li>Run Ventoy2Disk.exe</li>
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+ <li>Plug in a USB flash drive at least 4 GB in size</li>
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+ <li>Click the refresh icon</li>
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+ <li>Select the flash drive from the device dropdown</li>
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+ <li>Click the Install button</li>
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+ <li>After the installation completes, copy the downloaded Proxmox VE .iso to the Ventoy partition</li>
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+ <li>Safely remove the USB flash drive</li>
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+ <li>Plug the flash drive into the target laptop and power it on</li>
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+ <li>Boot to the flash drive</li>
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+ <li>Select the Proxmox VE .iso from the Ventoy menu</li>
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+</ol>
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+<h2>Installation and Setup</h2>
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+<ol>
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+ <li>Select Install Proxmox VE and press Enter</li>
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+ <li>Click the I agree button to accept the EULA</li>
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+ <li>Select the appropriate Target Harddisk from the dropdown > Click Next</li>
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+ <li>Set the Country, Time zone and Keyboard Layout > Click Next</li>
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+ <li>Enter a password and confirm, Enter an email address > Click Next</li>
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+ <li>Give the Proxmox device a hostname, confirm the network settings > Click Next</li>
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+ <li>Click the Install button</li>
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+ <li>Wait for Proxmox to be installed and configured</li>
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+ <li>After the installation succeeds, take note of the IP address and port</li>
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+ <li>Click the Reboot button</li>
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+</ol>
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+<h2>Installing a Desktop Environment</h2>
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+<ol>
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+ <li>Log back into Proxmox</li>
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+ <li>Run the following commands
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+ <div class="codeBlock CMD"># update software repositories<br />
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+ apt update<br />
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+ # install available software updates<br />
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+ apt dist-upgrade -y<br />
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+ # install xfce desktop environment<br />
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+ apt install xfce4 chromium lightdm sudo -y<br />
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+ # create a new user account<br />
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+ adduser <%username%><br />
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+ # follow the prompts to set the user's password<br />
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+ # add the new user to the sudo group<br />
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+ usermod -aG sudo <%username%><br />
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+ # reboot<br />
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+ reboot now</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>After the reboot, a graphical login screen should be displayed</li>
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+ <li>Log in with the new user account</li>
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+ <li>Launch the Chromium web browser and navigate to https://localhost:8006</li>
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+ <li>Welcome to Proxmox VE running on laptop hardware</li>
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+</ol>
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+<h2>Optional Configuration</h2>
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+
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+<ol>
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+ <li>Launch a terminal and run the following commands
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+ <div class="codeBlock CMD"># elevate to root<br />
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+ sudo su<br />
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+ # disable proxmox commmercial repo<br />
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+ sed -i "s/^deb/\#deb/" /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list<br />
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+ # add the proxmox community repo<br />
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+ 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<br />
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+ # update software repositories<br />
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+ apt update<br />
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+ # remove no subscription nag popup<br />
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+ # if running promox 6<br />
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+ sed -i.bak 's/NotFound/Active/g' /usr/share/perl5/PVE/API2/Subscription.pm<br />
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+ # if running proxmox 7<br />
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+ sed -Ezi.bak "s/(Ext.Msg.show\(\{\s+title: gettext\('No valid sub)/void\(\{ \/\/\1/g" /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js<br />
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+ # restart pveproxy service<br />
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+ systemctl restart pveproxy.service<br />
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+ # download the dark theme setup script<br />
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+ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Weilbyte/PVEDiscordDark/master/PVEDiscordDark.sh<br />
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+ # run the downloaded script<br />
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+ bash ./PVEDiscordDark.sh install</div>
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+ </li>
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+</ol>
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+
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+<p>Source: <a href="https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Workstations_with_Proxmox_VE_and_X11" target="_blank">https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Workstations_with_Proxmox_VE_and_X11</a></p>
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+ </div>
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+ </div>
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