Can Proxmox Virtual Machines boot with Pxe

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Hello, I want to connect to the virtual machines I have created on Proxmox with Pxe boot via discless thinclients, is this possible? If possible, how can it be done?
 
Yes, VMs can basically boot via PXE. To do this, you have to put the vNIC first in the VM under Options and then Boot order.
 
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How exactly will I do this. In the boot order section in the VM Optiosn section in Proxmox, I will bring net0 to the first place.Apart from that, how will the client machine see the image. Is it necessary to install TFTP and PXE Server. Is there a tutoriol for this?
 
Of course you have to set up the PXE infrastructure, but that has nothing to do with Proxmox VE. Just google it, you're not the first to do something like this.
 
Wds (windows deployment service) or dnsmasq (linux based) are twi relatively easy solutions for pxe functionality but others exist and for extensive functionality sccm is a beast. But probably one of the first two
 

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