Turn Your Old Laptop Into a Perfect Proxmox Server
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Very creative. Seems like few people would think of this nor actually try it. This video may encourage people to think bigger and to try things out of the ordinary. Great job!
appreciate the website article referenced in this video, I read thru proxmox cookbooks and guides but laptop specific tuning is what just motivated me to use my macbook as a second proxmox node instead of another esxi host. Now I will have to see if you have other useful information in your videos.
Awesome tutorial thank you for sharing your knowledge!
good to have smart people .. thanks
very informative...
But you dont show how to install Proxmox on Laptop. Can you show this including all stepps in this video and creating first vm? And if i want use the built-in Keyboard/Mouse/Display for the Windows VM does this work?
do you know a way to pass through the cd rom? proxmox throws an error..my laptop-home-server with samba-fileserver and docker (nextcloud) on lxc run perfekt and silence..thanx a lot again
Is there an option to automatically boot the laptop after a power outage?
Im also running proxmox on my laptop, how do you think i can achieve some sort of a fileserver/nas like?
Im currently running homeassistant on promox via my SSD and want to use my 1TB HDD to store the RTSP feed from my camera's.
How would i do that? ive read about ZFS but i think my laptop is hardware underpowered for that.
If laptop has a CD drive, swap it for a CD to HDD covertor, to extend the storage space.
You can use ZFS on anything (even Raspberry Pi), just keep in mind that performance might suffer a little bit.
@@GatewayITTutorials it has that, I Will try to extend my lenovo y500 with 2tb if possible. Do i run a file server then foe the 2TB drive for Nas storage? Or just use ZFS?
@@noz3m my suggestion is this: format the drive as ZFS (with help of ProxMox interface), then run something like OpenMediaVault on top of it as a VM.
Benefits:
ZFS snapshots, data integrity, replication.
Drawbacks:
Slower reads and writes compared to direct sata pass through.
But because it's not a production machine, try few different approaches and see which one fits you best.
@@GatewayITTutorials thanks I'll try!
Question: proxmox was installed on a 256gb SSD, can i Partition that disk? Since it's More then proxmox it'self needs
@@noz3m only by re-installing.
Then choose ZFS during the installation.
How can I use laptop screen for a vm display ?
Right now I am using remote desktop for accessing windows running on vm on proxmox, but now I want to use laptop screen for vm display... How to do that ?
Thank you.
Is there any way I can setup both Proxmox On the Laptop And Able to Run & see the screen of a Windows Virtual Machine?
This is how I would approach your request:
1) Install desktop environment on your laptop (XFCE or LXQT would probably be the best, because they are the most lightweight). To do it, google - install xfce4 debian10.
2) Create a new regular user (using root account within the DE is a VERY BAD practice).
3) Install Remmina and use RDP to connect to your windows VM.
@@GatewayITTutorials Thank you. But this setup would require a lot of RAM around 16 GB at minimum. As this is my Primary home laptop doing this isn't just gonna cut it right. However I got an HP Proliant server I could probably do these on that Server.
16gig is a big overestimate, at least for me :)
But that's just a guess, because I don't know how much memory you gave to your windows machine.
DE will require around 2gig of ram on top of what Proxmox uses at the moment.
Can I get away with not using ZFS? I used ExT4 instead
EXT4 is fine, I used ZFS in my example for the extra features it offers
@@GatewayITTutorials I understand. I want to test out Proxmox. Later on can I move my VMS over to server running Proxmox?
You mean to another ProxMox server?
If yes, than answer is: you can. If not, that gets a little tricky.
Implementing zfs in a single drive has no point. Where it is going to depend to fix issues found during scrubbing or resilvering? No parity checksum to compare and correrct. zfs needs at least two drives else ext4 /btrfs is better quicker and doesnt add an additional layer between hardware and the filesystem (zfs = manager for both filesystem and raw block).
I am afraid you are in the wrong here. ZFS is much more reliable, even with just one disk. File and file metadata are stored separately, so if the file gets corrupted it's true that ZFS can't restore it (with one disk or RAIDz0), but it will let you know that the file is damaged.
BTRFS is a joke on a production system, I've lost too much data just by testing it. And ZFS Replication is just something you can't replace with EXT4/BTRFS.
I am not here to argue, everyone has his own workflow when it comes to virtualisation, but ZFS has been my go to solution for years now, and it never let me down.
@@GatewayITTutorials Probably we are at the same page all along. I just commented on using zfs at a consumer level, since it is slower than other filesystems (again for just one drive) and don t find a use case scenario for plain users. If someone really cares for his data he wont be using one drive at first place and won t depend on the filesystem, just to inform him... you know your data is corrupt, cant do anything about it but you know.
That is where I was going with it, I am using zfs whenever I can but with the appropriate hardware needed though.
Thank you for your reply
So I thought I'd have a play with this on an old laptop I have, just to learn a few things.
Found that I couldn't access the page on another machine at all, didn't seem to matter what I did, finally I realised that the configuration is probably trying to configure the ethernet port, turns out the laptop doesn't have one only Wi-Fi
Just for playing around, anyone know how to configure the wifi with what comes with Proxmox, as I can't apt install anything without internet access
Thanks in advance
The easiest solution here would be to use USB to Ethernet adaptor, unless you like the pain and suffering WiFi brings to the server/hoster space)
@@GatewayITTutorials Also I’d like to thank you for your video. I am having the same problem in that I am using a USB to ethernet adapter but my laptop, a Lenovo Yoga 730, will not connect to my home network. I’m thinking that it is a driver issue. Can your offer any help on that please?
Hi :)
Noticed you've sent an email too, but I'll reply here.
Do you see your USB2Eth adapter if you run: ip a
Look at the list of network adaptors.
@@GatewayITTutorials Ok thanks. Will give that a try.