Proxmox on aarch64 (arm64)

keklick1337 · Jan 31, 2023

Hi! I have server with ampere altra processor.
How to install proxmox on this server?
I installed debian 11 arm64 on my server.

Neobin · Feb 1, 2023

No official/released ARM-support (yet):

dengolius · Mar 15, 2023

Does anybody tried to run Proxmox on Ampere ® Altra ® Q80-30 CPU at Hetzner RX170/RX220 ?

Andrey Zentavr · Mar 15, 2023

dengolius said:
Does anybody tried to run Proxmox on Ampere ® Altra ® Q80-30 CPU at Hetzner RX170/RX220 ?

Not yet, but we are seeking for virtualization solution

dengolius · Mar 15, 2023

Andrey Zentavr said:
Not yet, but we are seeking for virtualization solution

Worth a try server from https://deploy.equinix.com/product/servers/c3-large-arm64/ for 1-3 hours but I think that clear kvm via cockpit should work as well as vmware. There is a pimox project for raspberry pi 4 but I can' find anything for Ampere...

Andrey Zentavr · Mar 16, 2023

We have that smaller server from Hetzner as well. Right now Ubuntu is there, but there is a request from our dev.team to have a dozen of VMs so I would like to build a cluster and attach our CEPH storage.

ness1602 · Mar 16, 2023

Is there a ceph client package for arm?

sharky69 · Apr 12, 2023

I know at least 2 way to install unofficial Proxmox on arm64:

I used Pimox7 install script (a little customized) to install Proxmox on a Jetson NANO developer kit.
The 2nd way seemed more standard, but I don't know if the packages can be trusted or not.

jeff31700 · Apr 20, 2023

sharky69 said:
I know at least 2 way to install unofficial Proxmox on arm64:

https://github.com/pimox/pimox7

https://github.com/jiangcuo/Proxmox-Arm64

I used Pimox7 install script (a little customized) to install Proxmox on a Jetson NANO developer kit.
The 2nd way seemed more standard, but I don't know if the packages can be trusted or not.

Hi,
I tried to install pimox V7 from this link

https://github.com/pimox/pimox7

on a rock pi 5B which is armv8 64 bits ARCH :

rock@rock-5b:~$ uname -a
Linux rock-5b 5.10.66-27-rockchip-gea60d388902d #rockchip SMP Mon Oct 24 08:25:47 UTC 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux
rock@rock-5b:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Release: 11
Codename: bullseye

Loading new ceph-dkms-0.0.2 DKMS files...
Building for 5.10.110-37-rockchip-g74457be0716d
Building initial module for 5.10.110-37-rockchip-g74457be0716d
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.10.110-37-rockchip-g74457be0716d (aarch64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/ceph-dkms/0.0.2/build/make.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package ceph-dkms (--configure):
installed ceph-dkms package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10

But some dkms modules didnt build :

Do you have advice ?

Thx

dengolius · Apr 20, 2023

jeff31700 said:
Hi,
I tried to install pimox V7 from this link

https://github.com/pimox/pimox7

on a rock pi 5B which is armv8 64 bits ARCH :

rock@rock-5b:~$ uname -a
Linux rock-5b 5.10.66-27-rockchip-gea60d388902d #rockchip SMP Mon Oct 24 08:25:47 UTC 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux
rock@rock-5b:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Release: 11
Codename: bullseye

Loading new ceph-dkms-0.0.2 DKMS files...
Building for 5.10.110-37-rockchip-g74457be0716d
Building initial module for 5.10.110-37-rockchip-g74457be0716d
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.10.110-37-rockchip-g74457be0716d (aarch64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/ceph-dkms/0.0.2/build/make.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package ceph-dkms (--configure):
installed ceph-dkms package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10

But some dkms modules didnt build :

Do you have advice ?

Thx

Better to ask it via issue at https://github.com/pimox/pimox7

dengolius · Apr 20, 2023

dengolius said:
Worth a try server from https://deploy.equinix.com/product/servers/c3-large-arm64/ for 1-3 hours but I think that clear kvm via cockpit should work as well as vmware. There is a pimox project for raspberry pi 4 but I can' find anything for Ampere...

Here is the answer https://discord.com/channels/1040085308223520819/1089221423148568627/1095669133997260902

sharky69 · Apr 20, 2023

jeff31700 said:
Hi,
I tried to install pimox V7 from this link

https://github.com/pimox/pimox7

on a rock pi 5B which is armv8 64 bits ARCH :

rock@rock-5b:~$ uname -a
Linux rock-5b 5.10.66-27-rockchip-gea60d388902d #rockchip SMP Mon Oct 24 08:25:47 UTC 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux
rock@rock-5b:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Release: 11
Codename: bullseye

Loading new ceph-dkms-0.0.2 DKMS files...
Building for 5.10.110-37-rockchip-g74457be0716d
Building initial module for 5.10.110-37-rockchip-g74457be0716d
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.10.110-37-rockchip-g74457be0716d (aarch64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/ceph-dkms/0.0.2/build/make.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package ceph-dkms (--configure):
installed ceph-dkms package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10

But some dkms modules didnt build :

Do you have advice ?

Thx

You should be able to find the error message in this file:
/var/lib/dkms/ceph-dkms/0.0.2/build/make.log

jeff31700 · May 27, 2023

sharky69 said:
You should be able to find the error message in this file:
/var/lib/dkms/ceph-dkms/0.0.2/build/make.log

Hi,

Finaly i have installed ProxMox ARM64 from this repo : https://github.com/jiangcuo/Proxmox-Arm64

Now i need to import VM and check all fine...

Just hope no backdoor inside this pve firmware...LOL

proligde · Jun 2, 2023

@jeff31700 that's interesting! TBH I'm more than hesitating to use a non-official build for anything other than experimental testing.

That said, I'd be super thrilled to see any official development on an ARM release, especially for ARM Ampere as the first bare metal hosters are offering pretty affordable packages for Altra Q80-30 for example.

Is there any official roadmap when this is coming and I'm just too blind to find it?

ubu · Jun 2, 2023

dengolius said:
Worth a try server from https://deploy.equinix.com/product/servers/c3-large-arm64/ for 1-3 hours but I think that clear kvm via cockpit should work as well as vmware. There is a pimox project for raspberry pi 4 but I can' find anything for Ampere...

Pimox should work, install debian and add the pimox pakages

Good luck

proligde · Jun 2, 2023

ubu said:
Pimox should work, install debian and add the pimox pakages

Good luck

thanks! I was thinking about that option. I wonder if anyone has any experience with that, yet like "yeah might work, even if an Q80-30 is >100 times bigger than a RasPi, but use at your own risk" or "totally safe for production use -> ship it!" :-D

ubu · Jun 3, 2023

With pimox the base qemu / kvm / lxc comes from the base system (raspian / debian) just the management gui and config comes from pimox packages.

Please post your success story if you try it

odhiambo · Jun 4, 2023

I installed PIMOX on RPI4B. Now my apparmor service does not start.
```
root@hass:/etc/apparmor.d# systemctl status apparmor.service
● apparmor.service - Load AppArmor profiles
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apparmor.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2023-06-04 14:59:03 EAT; 1h 45min ago
Docs: man:apparmor(7)
https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/wikis/home/
Process: 56757 ExecStart=/lib/apparmor/apparmor.systemd reload (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 56757 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jun 04 14:59:02 hass apparmor.systemd[56757]: Restarting AppArmor
Jun 04 14:59:02 hass apparmor.systemd[56757]: Reloading AppArmor profiles
Jun 04 14:59:02 hass apparmor.systemd[56764]: /sbin/apparmor_parser: Unable to replace "/usr/bin/lxc-start". Profile doesn't conform to protocol
Jun 04 14:59:03 hass apparmor.systemd[56769]: /sbin/apparmor_parser: Unable to replace "/usr/sbin/chronyd". Profile doesn't conform to protocol
Jun 04 14:59:03 hass apparmor.systemd[56803]: /sbin/apparmor_parser: Unable to replace "/usr/bin/lxc-start". Profile doesn't conform to protocol
Jun 04 14:59:03 hass apparmor.systemd[56815]: /sbin/apparmor_parser: Unable to replace "/usr/sbin/chronyd". Profile doesn't conform to protocol
Jun 04 14:59:03 hass systemd[1]: apparmor.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 04 14:59:03 hass apparmor.systemd[56757]: Error: At least one profile failed to load
Jun 04 14:59:03 hass systemd[1]: apparmor.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 04 14:59:03 hass systemd[1]: Failed to start Load AppArmor profiles.
root@hass:/etc/apparmor.d#
```

Does anyone have an idea how I can address/fix this?

imbmfone · Sep 14, 2023

I was able to install Pimox on a A64-OLinuXino SBC by Olimex using custom build of armbian to include kvm modules.
Here is the video of installing alpine linux in VM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvCrbOJNmV8

mzhaqs · Sep 25, 2023

keklick1337 said:
Hi! I have server with ampere altra processor.
How to install proxmox on this server?
I installed debian 11 arm64 on my server.

I use this https://github.com/pimox/pimox7 on my raspberry pi 4b. Works pretty well.

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