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            <h1>Run the Official Debian Rolling Release Sid in a Proxmox VE VM</h1>
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          <h2>What is Debian Sid?</h2>

<blockquote>Debian Unstable (also known by its codename &quot;Sid&quot;) is not strictly a release, but rather a rolling development version of the Debian distribution containing the latest packages that have been introduced into Debian. As with all Debian release names, Sid takes its name from a Toy Story character. In the movie, Sid is the kid next door who breaks his toys and makes nasty creatures of them.<i> - <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable</a></i></blockquote>

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	<li>Log into the Proxmox web UI</li>
	<li>Select a storage from the left navigation pane to download the .iso to</li>
	<li>Select ISO Images in the left sub-navigation pane</li>
	<li>If running Proxmox 6, download the Debian Unstable (Sid) <a href="https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/mini.iso" target="_blank">Download</a> and upload it to the Proxmox ISO image library</li>
	<li>If running Proxmox 7, click Download from URL and paste the download URL from above &gt; Click Query URL &gt; Click Download</li>
	<li>Right click the Proxmox node name &gt; Create VM</li>
	<li>Give the VM a unique ID and Name &gt; Next</li>
	<li>On the OS tab, Select the Debian Sid installation .iso file, leave the Type as Linux and the Version as 5.x - 2.6 Kernel &gt; Next</li>
	<li>Leave the defaults on the System tab &gt; Next</li>
	<li>On the Hard Disk tab, set the Disk size to 16 GiB or more &gt; Next</li>
	<li>On the CPU tab, set Cores to 2 or more and Type to host &gt; Next</li>
	<li>On the Memory tab, set the Memory to 4096 &gt; Next</li>
	<li>Leave the defaults on the Network tab &gt; Next</li>
	<li>Verify the summary and click Finish</li>
	<li>Right click the Debian Sid VM in the left navigation pane &gt; Start</li>
	<li>Click console in the left sub-navigation menu</li>
	<li>When the install dialog displays press Enter to select Install</li>
	<li>Select a language &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Select a Location &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Select a keyboard layout &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Enter a hostname for the VM &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Enter a Domain name or leave it empty &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Choose a mirror location &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Choose a mirror &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Set the HTTP proxy if needed &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Leave the root password empty &gt; Press Enter &gt; Press Enter again to confirm</li>
	<li>Enter the full name for the new user &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Enter the username for the new user &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Enter a password for the new user &gt; Press Enter &gt; Confirm the password &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Select a timezone &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Select Guided - user entire disk &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Select the QEMU HARDDISK &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Select All files in one partition &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Select Yes to confirm writing the changes &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Select a country to use for the apt mirror &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Select a mirror from the list &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Setup a HTTP proxy if necessary &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Choose if you want to participate in package usage survey &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Select the optional software to install &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Wait for Debian Sid to copy and install files</li>
	<li>Select Yes to install GRUB &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Select /dev/sda for the boot loader location &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>After the bootloader is installed press Enter to finish the installation and reboot</li>
	<li>Log in using the username and password created during the installation</li>
	<li>Welcome to Debian Sid</li>
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<h2>Optional Steps</h2>

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	<li>Launch a terminal window</li>
	<li>Run the following commands
	<div class="codeBlock"># update software repositories<br />
	sudo apt update<br />
	# install qemu guest agent<br />
	sudo apt install qemu-guest-agent -y<br />
	# enable and start the qemu-guest-agent service<br />
	sudo systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent --now</div>
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	<li>A subsequent reboot is required to complete the guest agent installation</li>
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<p>Documentation: <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable</a></p>          </div>
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