Proxmox nested inside Proxmox?

[janvv]

Hi there,

I read about nesting a Proxmox installation on a Virtualbox VM.
But I am wondering if installing Proxmox on a VM would work on my Proxmox server itself?

I am developing shell scripts and playing with Ansible to install and manage my Proxmox box. Each time I want to do a real test, I wipe the disks of my physical machine and set up Proxmox from scratch. It would be a lot more convenient to have a virtual machine to do my testing on.

Well, maybe I will just go ahead and try it. Just checking if somebody has already done this...

Thanks
Jan

 

[t.lamprecht]

Hi,

But I am wondering if installing Proxmox on a VM would work on my Proxmox server itself?

Yes sure, we do lots of the development and some higher-level (HW unrelated) testing this way.

Just ensure you enabled nested virtualization if the nested Proxmox VE should run any VMs:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Nested_Virtualization

 

[Moayad]

Hi,

And here also the instructions for installation Proxmox VE inside VirtualBox [0]

[0] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_inside_VirtualBox

 

[janvv]

Yes! Cool...

 

[sherminator]

slightly off topic: My first steps into the world of PVE clustering I did with a laptop installing PVE and three virtual PVEs inside.