Installation saga

[Don Lawn]

Hi,
I'm just trying out proxmox, and thought you might be interested in discoveries so far.

Firstly, the installation would not recognise a USB keyboard. I tried two different ones, in all available USB ports.
Even the bios worked with them. A google search revealed a support discussion from 2011 with the same problem.
I eventually borrowed an old PS2 keyboard, and installation went smoothly from then on.

the installation asks for an administrator password, which I provided,
but when I went to first log on to the running system, it wanted a user id. "administrator" and "admin" didn't work.
I re-installed, taking careful note to see if the administrator username was mentioned somewhere. Couldn't see it.
A bit of web research indicate "root@pams" which I tried unsuccessfully, and eventually guessed the obvious "root".

So, I create a virtual machine and try to install from a Windows 7 Pro disk in the CD/DVD physical drive.
The vm could not see the optical disk upon startup. It tried the floppy (non-existent, then the CD/DVD, then the hard disk, then from pixie rom. Found nothing.
So I downloaded BurnAware Free on my windows machine to make an iso image from the disk,
and FileZilla and web searches to copy the image into the correct location on the Proxmox machine.
I connected the iso to the cd-rom, and restarted the VM. Again it couldn't find it.

More web research, and it appears that I will have to download virtio drivers, that for some reason or other are not included in the proxmox install by default.

I think its time to give ESXi a try.

 

[tom]

thanks for feedback. I never got any problems with a USB keyboard, in fact I am using this day by day as PS/2 keyboards are already gone (more or less).

before you install, a good reading is:
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Installation

using the physical CD for VM should also work without problems. seems you got a incompatible hardware? pls provide details about your server.

 

[m.ardito]

Hi, I'm just trying out proxmox,
...
Firstly, the installation would not recognise a USB keyboard.
...
it wanted a user id. "administrator" and "admin" didn't work.... eventually guessed the obvious "root".
...
The vm could not see the optical disk upon startup. ... Found nothing.
...
I connected the iso to the cd-rom, and restarted the VM. Again it couldn't find it.
...
More web research, and it appears that I will have to download virtio drivers, that for some reason or other are not included in the proxmox install by default.
...
I think its time to give ESXi a try.

Probably you're right, but I think you missed a lot about what PVE is and works, and "free software" in general.
Anyway, to me, and many many others (if not all other) users, usb keyboard works, as cdrom and iso too. I just started (and still do) reading the wiki, which is really full of good info and help. Then this forum is here to help, too. The fact that you even had PS/2 option suggest not recent hardware, probably. You know that pve is a debian linux based OS? root is the only account provided by default, but you can add and use any other auth source (even active directory works). Virtio drivers are not mandatory, there are even multiple versions of them, they're not even the default. Are those (sorry but) newbie issues what makes you prefer other hypervisors? I think you're right then, this is "too difficult".

Marco