Unattended Proxmox 8.1 Installation

[YosefCohen]

Hey,
I'm trying to create an unattended Proxmox ISO for a bootable USB and for a PXE Installation,
Is there some guide available that I can use? (I've searched the web but unfortunately it was unsuccessful)

Thank you

 

[LnxBil]

I've searched the web but unfortunately it was unsuccessful

First hit is https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/install-proxmox-host-via-pxe.108281/

 

[Folke]

Hi,
unfortunately, unattended installation is not supported yet. There is some work being done to get it working, but I can't give you an ETA on when it is landing.

 

[esi_y]

First hit is https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/install-proxmox-host-via-pxe.108281/

There's absolutely nothing in there about unattended, it's PXE install discussion. And answering that he should do Debian unattended and then PVE is a piece of advice he didn't need to come to PVE forum to ask about.

 

[YosefCohen]

I discovered a method to accomplish this using a bootable USB. I utilized Ventoy, Preseed, and Ansible for the process. It works perfectly!
https://github.com/YosefCohen877/USB-Unattended-Proxmox/tree/main

 

[LnxBil]

I discovered a method to accomplish this using a bootable USB. I utilized Ventoy, Preseed, and Ansible for the process. It works perfectly!
https://github.com/YosefCohen877/USB-Unattended-Proxmox/tree/main

Nice. Thank you for reporting back.

 

[esi_y]

I discovered a method to accomplish this using a bootable USB. I utilized Ventoy, Preseed, and Ansible for the process. It works perfectly!
https://github.com/YosefCohen877/USB-Unattended-Proxmox/tree/main

There's a lot in there. Is that all manually from you or something sourced off elsewhere? I only ask because I wonder if all that is necessary to make it to the finish line. Also, why is there a drone picture for the deployment?

NB: (I do not work at Proxmox)

   - name: Remove no valid sub popup
      ansible.builtin.replace:
        path: /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js
        regexp: >-
          (^\s+)(Ext.Msg.show\(\{\s+title:\s+gettext\('No valid subscription)
        replace: '\1void({ //\2'

Really?

 

[exponentielhippy]

Hi all, if you're interested, i have at home a 6 proxmox nodes in a cluster in an hyper-V nested environnement, that i've deployed with a simple pxe server on debian. I've created preseeded files to install proxmox 7.x or 8.x on the right version on debian. I used lvm-thin for my needs. The partitionning is also made for my needs. These preseeds file are very generic for deploying simple debian 11 or 12 distros, or an entire proxmox 7 or 8 node. Of course, this work can be improved and I continue to improve it. I was able to use it to deploy to physical servers too. Best regards

 

[Kingneutron]

Hi all, if you're interested, i have at home a 6 proxmox nodes in a cluster in an hyper-V nested environnement, that i've deployed with a simple pxe server on debian. I've created preseeded files to install proxmox 7.x or 8.x on the right version on debian. I used lvm-thin for my needs. The partitionning is also made for my needs. These preseeds file are very generic for deploying simple debian 11 or 12 distros, or an entire proxmox 7 or 8 node. Of course, this work can be improved and I continue to improve it. I was able to use it to deploy to physical servers too. Best regards

Post it on github or the like

 

[YosefCohen]

There's a lot in there. Is that all manually from you or something sourced off elsewhere? I only ask because I wonder if all that is necessary to make it to the finish line. Also, why is there a drone picture for the deployment?

NB: (I do not work at Proxmox)

   - name: Remove no valid sub popup
      ansible.builtin.replace:
        path: /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js
        regexp: >-
          (^\s+)(Ext.Msg.show\(\{\s+title:\s+gettext\('No valid subscription)
        replace: '\1void({ //\2'

Really?

I need to update the repo, I did a lot of changes.
i did all manually without any sources (because there is no sources :/ )
the drone just to check the Ventoy customization

 

[exponentielhippy]

Hi all, if you're interested, i have at home a 6 proxmox nodes in a cluster in an hyper-V nested environnement, that i've deployed with a simple pxe server on debian. I've created preseeded files to install proxmox 7.x or 8.x on the right version on debian. I used lvm-thin for my needs. The partitionning is also made for my needs. These preseeds file are very generic for deploying simple debian 11 or 12 distros, or an entire proxmox 7 or 8 node. Of course, this work can be improved and I continue to improve it. I was able to use it to deploy to physical servers too. Best regards

coming soon : https://gitlab.com/exponentielhippy2/debien-proxmox-preseeds

 

[Hubguru]

Automated install is supported in 8.1 https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Automated_Installation

I played with it, took me a few times to get all the parameters like I wanted, but created the ISO, wrote to USB and it worked as expected.

 

[ScottFS]

Hi,
unfortunately, unattended installation is not supported yet. There is some work being done to get it working, but I can't give you an ETA on when it is landing.

This is a really needed feature for enterprise level people. Installing via an iso/usb key 100s of machines is not really feasible. I understand the whole install debian then put PVE ontop of it. But that is not clean.

Automated install is supported in 8.1 https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Automated_Installation

I played with it, took me a few times to get all the parameters like I wanted, but created the ISO, wrote to USB and it worked as expected.

I found the methods odd. Like how it posts out for a config (so something else to code up) And right now I'm stuck on the whole having the automated installer boot in http mode (right now it just runs and complains it can't find a file... but if I run the fetch by hand it works fine).