Install PVE/PBS from ISO on Hetzner without KVM (Tutorial)

[MaLe]

Hi.

This setup should work:

- boot your system to Rescue Console
- figure out the real name of the network adapter with ip a (find in section altname)
- Download Proxmox ISO: wget https://enterprise.proxmox.com/iso/proxmox-ve_8.4-1.iso
- Start qemu session:

With at least two NVMe devices:
qemu-system-x86_64 -machine pc-q35-5.2 -enable-kvm -smp 4 -m 4096 -boot once=d -cdrom ./proxmox-ve_8.4-1.iso -drive file=/dev/nvme0n1,format=raw,media=disk,if=virtio -drive file=/dev/nvme1n1,format=raw,media=disk,if=virtio -vnc :1

With at least two SSD or HDD devices:
qemu-system-x86_64 -machine pc-q35-5.2 -enable-kvm -smp 4 -m 4096 -boot once=d -cdrom ./proxmox-ve_8.4-1.iso -drive file=/dev/sda,format=raw,media=disk,if=virtio -drive file=/dev/sdb,format=raw,media=disk,if=virtio -vnc :1

- Attach to the VM with VNC viewer via main IP of your server on Port 1 (x.x.x.x:1)
- Install Proxmox VE (for example with ZFS mirror)
- After rebooting login to the system (still in the VM)
- edit /etc/network/interfaces and change the name of the network device according to the altname and the IP adress + gateway (find in Robot)
- shutdown the VM
- reboot the server
- login to PVE web interface
- configure the DNS servers
- configure filewall to prevent messages from BSI/Hetzner for open NFS ports

 

[Tealk]

I have now installed it via the kvm console since hetzner provided me with promox via usb.