proxmox on arm64
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yes I did get it working it was something to do with ifupdown versions or something proxmox uses ifupdown2 , so you have to set that up before doing proxmox , going from memory, I thought I had mentioned it on a forum somewhere , I recently cleaned out my test virtualmachines last week so I can not go through my terminal logs now and can not find my cheat document I was copy pasting from
but this sounds like it https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/ifupdown2-install-breaks-network-pve-7-3-4.121414/
and some other links here
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-on-aarch64-arm64.121925/page-2#post-601030
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I have an Ampere based system.
It installed (ish) and is 'working'
I encountered one problem in install and cannot seem to get a VM started
- Install problem: It installed and created 3 partitions. Two have EFI data. However; BIOS is not loading it.
It works if I boot to UEFI shell and execute the grub EFI file.
- Creation of a VM: I created the VM and tried to start it and received error
bios: ovmf
boot: order=scsi0;scsi2;net0
cores: 20
cpu: host,flags=+aes
machine: q35
memory: 40960
meta: creation-qemu=8.1.5,ctime=1716178377
name: ubuntu24-vm
net0: virtio=BC:24:11:9E:9A:5E,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 0
ostype: l26
scsi0: ZFS1:vm-100-disk-0,iothread=1,size=32G,ssd=1
scsi2: local:iso/ubuntu-24.04-live-server-arm64.iso,media=cdrom,size=2420396K
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
serial0: socket
smbios1: uuid=eff3c526-4a7e-4a06-a75f-fedb1fbb80d1
sockets: 1
vga: serial0
root@proxmox:~# qm start 100
WARN: no efidisk configured! Using temporary efivars disk.
kvm: unsupported machine type
Use -machine help to list supported machines
start failed: QEMU exited with code 1
root@proxmox:~# uname -a
Linux proxmox 6.1.73-generic #1 SMP Tue Jan 16 19:00:42 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux
root@proxmox:~#
It installed (ish) and is 'working'
I encountered one problem in install and cannot seem to get a VM started
- Install problem: It installed and created 3 partitions. Two have EFI data. However; BIOS is not loading it.
It works if I boot to UEFI shell and execute the grub EFI file.
- Creation of a VM: I created the VM and tried to start it and received error
bios: ovmf
boot: order=scsi0;scsi2;net0
cores: 20
cpu: host,flags=+aes
machine: q35
memory: 40960
meta: creation-qemu=8.1.5,ctime=1716178377
name: ubuntu24-vm
net0: virtio=BC:24:11:9E:9A:5E,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 0
ostype: l26
scsi0: ZFS1:vm-100-disk-0,iothread=1,size=32G,ssd=1
scsi2: local:iso/ubuntu-24.04-live-server-arm64.iso,media=cdrom,size=2420396K
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
serial0: socket
smbios1: uuid=eff3c526-4a7e-4a06-a75f-fedb1fbb80d1
sockets: 1
vga: serial0
root@proxmox:~# qm start 100
WARN: no efidisk configured! Using temporary efivars disk.
kvm: unsupported machine type
Use -machine help to list supported machines
start failed: QEMU exited with code 1
root@proxmox:~# uname -a
Linux proxmox 6.1.73-generic #1 SMP Tue Jan 16 19:00:42 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux
root@proxmox:~#
I think they are stable enough, now. Sometime, you will not buy a server because of the performance but because of the energy usage/saving. I think its time for proxmox to enter this ship. xcp-ng starts a collaboration already.
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My 128 core ARM desktop with a GPU takes far less power than than any of my laptops.
Just in the power for fans this is a power reduction over my traditional 12core desktop.
Occasionally the chassis fans spin up to assist the passive heatsink on the ARM CPU. This means 5 fans are not spinning all the time as in my traditional desktop.
Oh, and... my ARM system (having a few more cores - 128 not 12), actually does more work, allows for more effective workload partitioning.
Simply stated, by getting more cores, more granularity of control, and more work, I also save about 20% power.
Oh, I almost forgot... I also gained 2@10Gb NICs and more DRAM within the power envelope described.
Seems like a win for everyone to move away from transistor bloat of traditional CPUs.
Hi everyone.
I can see comments at the beginning of this thread, explaining that a lot of work has been done - and we are waiting for usable HW in Europe.
There are already SMicros, etc. with 96+ core CPUs.
Don't you think it's already time to build a technical preview for ARM? I can understand that there needs to be a support team for it, etc. But the technical preview could be the way to get a huge community driven testing platform.
cc: @tom
I can see comments at the beginning of this thread, explaining that a lot of work has been done - and we are waiting for usable HW in Europe.
There are already SMicros, etc. with 96+ core CPUs.
Don't you think it's already time to build a technical preview for ARM? I can understand that there needs to be a support team for it, etc. But the technical preview could be the way to get a huge community driven testing platform.
cc: @tom
There are a couple servers available at Hetzner (Finland region). You can also order additional hard drives and switches is needed, so you can build a cluster.
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@Andrey Zentavr , yup ... Ampere Altra based systems are now available to use in clouds / to buy and host.
So I'm looking forward to PVE@ARM tech preview
So I'm looking forward to PVE@ARM tech preview