Is it possible to run Proxmox on ARM servers?

[IEpicDestroyer]

Hi everyone!

I plan to grab a Scaleway C1 server soon which uses ARM cores instead. By any chance does Proxmox work in ARM enviroments?

Thanks for your replies!

 

[Alwin]

Well, even if, there is not enough RAM on the C1. And you will not have any benefit from running on ARM, the price is the same at Scaleway and I doubt that ARM performs better than Intel/AMD CPUs (even with Meltdown/Spectre patches).

 

[IEpicDestroyer]

It's for self use, so the 2GB is enough to deploy a few containers, which is what I need only. But since where did Scaleway offer Intel/AMD CPUs for their smallest plans? All I see is the ARM ones for the dedis.

 

[Alwin]

It's for self use, so the 2GB is enough to deploy a few containers, which is what I need only.

2GB will not be enough, around ~1-2 GB (depending on install) is needed for PVE.

But since where did Scaleway offer Intel/AMD CPUs for their smallest plans? All I see is the ARM ones for the dedis.

For ARM vs x86, this is generally speaking. True, there are none. I didn't look at C1, as there is not enough RAM in the offer.

For what it's worth, you can run PVE in a VM too, as nested KVM is working in PVE and secondly, with containers you don't use the nested virtualization anyway.

But to go back to the initial question again, you need to compile the packages by yourself and resolve any missing dependencies.

 

[Pixels]

2GB will not be enough, around ~1-2 GB (depending on install) is needed for PVE.

2GB is more than enough to run PVE and a few (small) boxes.

I've installed Proxmox over Debian Jessie and Stretch and PVE eats up 500-700MB of RAM.

 

[LnxBil]

By any chance does Proxmox work in ARM enviroments?

Hopefully, we'll get more information on the next ProxTalks about this. Thomas talked about this the last time.