installation manual for installing on kvm

[AvdN]

I am looking at using PMG on a client's machine (hardware in a datacenter running Ubuntu 22.04 with several applications mostly in docker containers).

The machine currently receives email on port 25 (docker container "smtp" with postfix, fail2ban, postgrey, spf checking) and any email for valid/active users is forwarded to an outside machine doing spam/virus filtering and ends up coming in on port 587 (another docker requiring authentication, running dovecot vor IMAP access and a seperate instance of postfix).

In the situation described I want to get rid of the reliance on the outside machine. As I think PMG does everything the current docker container does, if so I could probably have it listen on port 25 instead. If that is not the case I could set it up on some other port and forward to that.

Looking at the adminstration guide (system requirements) I thought going for "KVM (virtio drivers are integrated, great performance)", would be a good idea, but I can't find anything on how to set that up (kvm is only mentioned in that bullet item list). Should I just go with VirtualBox (with which I am more familiar, but I thought it to be overkill) or is there a description on how to install/configure PMG with KVM running on Ubuntu/Debian?

 

[tom]

is there a description on how to install/configure PMG with KVM running on Ubuntu/Debian?

You can install on top of Debian (not Ubuntu).

https://pmg.proxmox.com/pmg-docs/pmg-admin-guide.html#pmg_install_on_debian

 

[AvdN]

You can install on top of Debian (not Ubuntu).

https://pmg.proxmox.com/pmg-docs/pmg-admin-guide.html#pmg_install_on_debian

That doesn't really answer my question on where to find details on a KVM based install. I don't want to install proxmox on the host (I would not even want to do that if the host was running Debian). Replacing the host OS (with Debian or Proxmox VE) is not an option. That is why I asked about KVM, which I assumed hides the VM running proxmox, just like VIrtualBox does, from the specifics of the host OS.

 

[tom]

You can install the Proxmox Mail Gateway (by using the ISO) on any virtualization host (KVM, VMware, Hyper-V, Virtualbox, etc).

 

[AvdN]

You can install the Proxmox Mail Gateway (by using the ISO) on any virtualization host (KVM, VMware, Hyper-V, Virtualbox, etc).

That doesn't really answer my question on where to find ***details*** on a KVM based install. That you can install from ISO was already clear from the admin manual.

 

[tom]

What kind of details do you miss? I really do not understand what you are asking for. Please ask clear and easy question to the point.

Our ISO installer is self explaining, docs are on https://pmg.proxmox.com

 

[AvdN]

What kind of details do you miss? I really do not understand what you are asking for. Please ask clear and easy question to the point.

Our ISO installer is self explaining, docs are on https://pmg.proxmox.com

All details, this is not about getting the ISO or configuring Proxmox, this is about steps how to get Proxmox running using KVM. E.g.

Step 1) Intalll KMS, QEMU

Step 2) download the ISO for testing the unsupported version of Proxmox Mail Gateway from URL https://xwer.ewr/ewr/xyz.iso

Step 3) start the downloaded .iso using : kvm run xyz.iso --memory 8Gb --disk 32Gb --disk-name /var/tmp/proxmox.tmp.img

Something like the detailed steps in 3.4 and 3.5 in the mail gateway adminstration guide, but then related to getting PMG started using KVM from scratch (a minimal linux host system for kvm).