Use proxmox VE as primary workstation?

[Jason Perlow]

For those of us that have 64-bit laptops, is there an easy way to add X-Windows and a basic GNOME config to Proxmox VE?

are there debian repos we can add and any specific meta-packages to give us a basic environment?

 

[dietmar]

are there debian repos we can add and any specific meta-packages to give us a basic environment?

We are working on that. The problem is that there is no 64bit firefox java plugin available currently.

- Dietmar

 

[Jason Perlow]

I was able to do this by adding the debian repos to /etc/apt/sources.list and installed

apt-get install xorg
apt-get install gnome

after the system came up I brought up synaptic and looked for 32-bit, and installed the 32-bit compat libs for GTK. Then I did a manual install of Firefox 3 by copying it to /opt and also a manual install of java by copying it to /opt. symbolically linking the java executable from /usr/bin and also symlinking the libjavaplugin_oji.so in the /opt/java/plugin/i386/ns7/ to the same name /opt/firefox/plugins/directory.

However, after too many apt-get updates and upgrades I destabilized the system, probably due to conflicting packages, so I think proxmox needs to have these in its own repo. You're gonna have to repackage 32-bit firefox and sun java and probably also flash.

 

[arash.abghari]

Hi,

It may be too late to reply for this post but I just saw it. Anyway, I installed gnome-desktop-environment using apt-get on top of Proxmox VE and every thing is going well. To access to VMs, I had windows version of Firefox 32 bit and Sun Java installed through Wine and they are working well as well.