[SOLVED] Proxmox 8.4.1 Does Not Recognize External Thunderbolt 4 Enclosure Drives

[Pheasant Nest]

Howdy -

On a fresh install of Proxmox PVE 8.4.1, my external enclosure is not being recognized by Proxmox. Checking with fdisk -l and lsblk I do not see the nvme endpoint being recognized. Using dmesg- w and plugging the enclosure in I do see the enclosure being recognized.

 

[Pheasant Nest]

( I actually already solved this but wanted to save others the headache )

Since the enclosure was being recognized by dmesg -w but the nvme endpoint weren't being recognized, I eventually was led to try and determine if the thunderbolt device was not authorized via the boltctl command. That's when I realized that by default it appears Proxmox doesn't include that package which is used to manage some thunderbolt devices. By installing bolt (not boltctl, that's the command) via apt install bolt, the devices then showed up in boltctl and also in the GUI storage page.