Proxmox on aarch64 (arm64)

[Vikingforties]

Thats great i go to first reseller, and the machine is even missing from the page. So 0 points for Ampere in this case.

I'll get that one looked into.
Here's a bunch that should work for you:
https://www.mifcom.de/workstations-ampere-altra-cid774
https://www.ipi.wiki/products/ampere-altra-developer-platform
https://www.ipi.wiki/pages/ampere-altra-dev-kit
https://www.newegg.com/global/uk-en/p/pl?d=altra (UK site)
Let me know if you have an issue.

 

[Ramphex]

sub'd for the ARM version updates

 

[SomeUser]

7% in 2022 is way different then 2024 with year on year growth and the exponential AI growth bubble, even companies like Nvidia are starting to move towards arm and Microsoft windows of all with all its shenanegans came out with official arm support, yet somehow people don't see the need to preemptively attract the arm crowd, rather loose the boat.

exactly chicken egg problem.
why port pve to arm if there is nothing that runs on arm that cant run on x86.

i dont work for proxmox but porting and supporting a new platform eats resources (money) and if the real market outside of homelabbing is too small its just not worth it.

Somehow, people just don't seem to get it - if you want something free, that needs work from other people, unless there's a way to pay for it, it ain't happening. It is normal to want to put food on the table, and to have nice vacations, and buy a house, and put your kids through college. This means the people doing this need to focus on what they need to do, to make it happen.

All those wishes about Arm and how much marketshare, blah blah blah simply doesn't translate to $$. Period. The hobbyist market is simply too small, and most don't buy a subscription. So... ain't happening.

 

[justinclift]

As Proxmox is OSS, I wonder if there are enthusiasts already making ARM64 builds of it for themselves and/or others?

 

[LnxBil]

As Proxmox is OSS, I wonder if there are enthusiasts already making ARM64 builds of it for themselves and/or others?

Yes, they do and thank you for reading the whole thread

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-on-aarch64-arm64.121925/post-548390

 

[justinclift]

Heh Heh Heh. Yeah, my bad.

Thanks for that link to the exactly correct thing, that looks useful.

 

[justinclift]

Looks like there's a new ARM64 Proxmox ISO building project too:

https://github.com/jiangcuo/pve-iso-builder

 

[beisser]

the thing is that any of those builds wont be supported here. you will essentially need to try to get issues with it supported on that particular github.
unfortunately people with those builds end up here regularily asking for support/advice.

 

[justinclift]

Damn.

 

[matrix1999]

Just want to report in that following the github guide as mentioned earlier in the thread, I am now able to run proxmox 8.2.4 (latest version available at the time).

However, despite I installed "pve-qemu-kvm", I was not able to create VMs with QEMU agent enabled. If I do, the VM would behave strange like it won't shutdown, performance becomes sporadic, etc. Did anyone else face the same issue? If so, what's your remedy?

 

[matrix1999]

Looks like there's a new ARM64 Proxmox ISO building project too:

https://github.com/jiangcuo/pve-iso-builder

If you want to use this ISO, you must also enable UEFI which you'll need this - https://github.com/worproject/rpi5-uefi. While it is feasible but it also has its downside (at least for now). For example, the built-in ethernet will not work and you must supply an external ethernet via USB.

For that I personally went the other route, where I install Proxmox from a repo. And in my case, I started with the Raspberry Pi Lite (64-bit).

 

[iwik]

There is commercially available HPE Arm server HPE ProLiant RL300. I did played with this server abut year ago, but tested only linux and ESXi. Have anybody else tried this Proxmox VE ARM version?

 

[Alereon]

Somehow, people just don't seem to get it - if you want something free, that needs work from other people, unless there's a way to pay for it, it ain't happening. It is normal to want to put food on the table, and to have nice vacations, and buy a house, and put your kids through college. This means the people doing this need to focus on what they need to do, to make it happen.

All those wishes about Arm and how much marketshare, blah blah blah simply doesn't translate to $$. Period. The hobbyist market is simply too small, and most don't buy a subscription. So... ain't happening.

While an anecdote doesn't data make, we're using PVE on production nodes (with paid subscriptions), but are running a kvm/qemu/libvirt solution wth a lot of manual config/control for the Ampere side of things. I'd love to bring the ARM parts of our environment under the PVE umbrella (with paid subscriptions of course), but can't until it's officially supported. With Ampere and other ARM servers growing in popularity, it seems like there's likely an actual market there beyond hobbyist and homelabs.

 

[fmartingr]

Subscribing to the thread to get updates on ARM status for proxmox. Recently tried it and I'm very happy on how it works, but most of my homelab servers are arm, sadly, so I will sit here and wait. Happy to chime in some money to get this improvement moving.

 

[verulian]

I think following these bugzilla issues might be helpful:

• https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5764
• https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314

Having arm64 support as a first class citizen would be great instead of relying on worrisome third party projects.