PVE8-ARM fresh install

pve8arm-fresh.txt

***Pi-Mox8 setup on raspberry pi 4b & cm4


***Raspberry PI OS setup

***Install raspbian x64 lite on raspberry pi

pull the latest copy of Raspberry Pi Imager, from here https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ and Raspberry PI OS x64 lite based on debian 12 bookworm from here: https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/#raspberry-pi-os-64-bit

open imager, click choose os, scroll to the bottom and select custom. open the image "2024-11-19-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img.xz"
select storage and choose your usb device
click gear icon and add hostname, enable ssh, set username and pw etc.
write to usb/sd card then install in raspberry pi and boot system
once the system is up ssh into your new system


set root pw
`sudo passwd root`

login as root
`sudo su -`

install some tools to make life easier
`apt install -y neofetch tmux chrony ifupdown2`

open tmux session (this is not mandatory if you know you have a good network connection to the target)
`tmux new -s pimoxinstall`

run updates
`apt update && apt upgrade -y`

reboot now

login again as root

***Setup for proxmox8-arm64

Add Key for proxmox-arm8 mirror
`curl https://mirrors.apqa.cn/proxmox/debian/pveport.gpg -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/pveport.gpg`

create pveport.list file and populate with mirror info
`echo "deb https://global.mirrors.apqa.cn/proxmox/debian/pve bookworm port">/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pveport.list`

`apt update && apt full-upgrade`

add your ip and hostname to the /etc/hosts file
`nano /etc/hosts`
comment out the 127.0.1.1 address if thats in your hosts file

***Install PVE packages

`apt install -y proxmox-ve postfix open-iscsi`
for postfix config I selected "Local only" > then confirmed the same hostname entered earlier

reboot now
login again as root after reboot

verify everything is current no other updates needed
`apt update`

Disable popup about subscription:
open ssh session to your system

`sed -Ezi.bak "s/(Ext.Msg.show\\(\\{\\s+title: gettext\\('No valid sub)/void\\(\\{ \\/\\/\\1/g" /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js && systemctl restart pveproxy.service`

increase swap space:
`nano /etc/dphys-swapfile`
increase the swap file space to 1gb or 1024 - "CONF\_SWAPSIZE=1024" - save the file then reboot the system

Fix memory stats for containers:
please modify cmdline.txt like  
`nano /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt`
put the following parameters to the end of the line

`cgroup_enable=cpuset cgroup_enable=memory cgroup_memory=1`

login to web interface

open shell or ssh into system
make sure your timezone is set
timedatectl 

make sure chrony is setup correctly
chronyc sources

config for chrony found @ /etc/chrony/chrony.conf

setup your normal config as per your own spec (add bridge0 users groups roles storage etc)


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After PVE install

         .://:`              `://:.            
       `hMMMMMMd/          /dMMMMMMh`          ----------------- 
        `sMMMMMMMd:      :mMMMMMMMs`           OS: Proxmox VE 8.3.2+port aarch64 
`-/+oo+/:`.yMMMMMMMh-  -hMMMMMMMy.`:/+oo+/-`   Host: Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Rev 1.1 
`:oooooooo/`-hMMMMMMMyyMMMMMMMh-`/oooooooo:`   Kernel: 6.6.62+rpt-rpi-v8 
  `/oooooooo:`:mMMMMMMMMMMMMm:`:oooooooo/`     Uptime: 4 mins 
    ./ooooooo+- +NMMMMMMMMN+ -+ooooooo/.       Packages: 1141 (dpkg) 
      .+ooooooo+-`oNMMMMNo`-+ooooooo+.         Shell: bash 5.2.15 
        -+ooooooo/.`sMMs`./ooooooo+-           Terminal: /dev/pts/1 
          :oooooooo/`..`/oooooooo:             CPU: (4) @ 1.500GHz 
          :oooooooo/`..`/oooooooo:             Memory: 1123MiB / 7809MiB 
        -+ooooooo/.`sMMs`./ooooooo+-
      .+ooooooo+-`oNMMMMNo`-+ooooooo+.                                 
    ./ooooooo+- +NMMMMMMMMN+ -+ooooooo/.                               
  `/oooooooo:`:mMMMMMMMMMMMMm:`:oooooooo/`
`:oooooooo/`-hMMMMMMMyyMMMMMMMh-`/oooooooo:`
`-/+oo+/:`.yMMMMMMMh-  -hMMMMMMMy.`:/+oo+/-`
        `sMMMMMMMm:      :dMMMMMMMs`
       `hMMMMMMd/          /dMMMMMMh`
         `://:`              `://:`

I get the following message after running the proxmox install command (line 52)

E: Unable to locate package proxmox-ve

I've updated the mirrors using the link provided by @rope-hmg

Any suggestions on how to resolve this?

Looks to me like the person hosting the repo has taken it offline and forced everyone to move over to "pxvirt": https://global.mirrors.apqa.cn/

If you've already run the above script, run the following (safe to do so even if you haven't run the script):

rm -rf /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/pveport.gpg
rm -rf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pveport.list

Then, you can run the above script with the following substitutions:

• Change L39 to:
  curl -L https://mirrors.lierfang.com/pxcloud/lierfang.gpg -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/lierfang.gpg
• Change L42 to:
  echo "deb [arch=arm64] https://mirrors.lierfang.com/pxcloud/pxvirt bookworm main">/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pxvirt-sources.list
• Change L52 to:
  apt install -y pxvirt postfix open-iscsi

Unfortunately, this also seems to have broken netboot for VMs on the Pi. Adding the RNG device, as suggested in the Proxmox forums, does not work.

Edit:
I've managed to get PXE/ netboot working again by downgrading the following packages:

apt install pve-docs:arm64=8.3.1 pve-edk2-firmware-ovmf:arm64=4.2024.11-3 proxmox-widget-toolkit:arm64=4.3.4 libpve-rs-perl:arm64=0.9.0 corosync:arm64=3.1.7-pve3 pve-qemu-kvm:arm64=9.2.0-2 libpve-cluster-api-perl:arm64=8.0.10 pve-edk2-firmware-legacy:arm64=4.2024.11-3 pve-ha-manager:arm64=4.0.6 pve-edk2-firmware-aarch64:arm64=4.2024.11-3 libpve-storage-perl:arm64=8.3.3 libpve-guest-common-perl:arm64=5.1.6 libvotequorum8:arm64=3.1.7-pve3 libquorum5:arm64=3.1.7-pve3 pve-cluster:arm64=8.0.10 libproxmox-rs-perl:arm64=0.3.4 proxmox-ve:arm64=8.3.0 novnc-pve:arm64=1.4.0-4 libcmap4:arm64=3.1.7-pve3 libcfg7:arm64=3.1.7-pve3 pve-xtermjs:arm64=5.3.0-3 qemu-server:arm64=8.3.7 libpve-access-control:arm64=8.2.0 pve-container:arm64=5.2.2+port1 libcpg4:arm64=3.1.7-pve3 pve-i18n:arm64=3.2.4 libpve-network-api-perl:arm64=0.10.0+port libpve-http-server-perl:arm64=5.1.2 pve-manager:arm64=8.3.3 libpve-common-perl:arm64=8.2.9+port1 libpve-network-perl:arm64=0.10.0+port libpve-notify-perl:arm64=8.0.10 pve-firewall:arm64=5.1.0 libcorosync-common4:arm64=3.1.7-pve3 proxmox-kernel-helper:arm64=8.1.0 proxmox-termproxy:arm64=1.0.1 libpve-cluster-perl:arm64=8.0.10