Re: Re: ESXi -> Proxmox
By: Warpslide to deon on Sun May 04 2025 09:20 am

Howdy,

I'm not sure this approach was the best one, but it worked and I got to learn a bunch of stuff about Proxmox along the way.

(Sorry for the wall of text)

Glad it worked out for you.

My CM5's arrived, and I flashed Debian to the eMMCs, then did the proxmox install on them.

I must admit, I am liking it - but I've hit a brick wall. I wanted to install talos linux as a VM on 3 of them, to create a kube cluster. While getting it to boot the iso was easy, the install proceeds, but when the VM reboots, it reverts back to the CD. The hard drive doesnt appear to have had the UEFI boot loader installed.

So not sure if its me, the fact that I'm running arm proxmox, or if talos doesnt install the UEFI boot loader on arm. Argh!

Might be able to get around it using PXE - so I might try that next...


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On 05 May 2025, Warpslide said the following...

Lets see if we're still online in the morning.

It was! :)


Jay

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My CM5's arrived, and I flashed Debian to the eMMCs, then did the proxmox install on them.

I must admit, I am liking it - but I've hit a brick wall. I wanted to install talos linux as a VM on 3 of them, to create a kube cluster.
While getting it to boot the iso was easy, the install proceeds, but
when the VM reboots, it reverts back to the CD. The hard drive doesnt appear to have had the UEFI boot loader installed.

Theres options for UEFI when you create the VM. The PVE documentation is also very helpful - not saying RTFM, but it does cover all the advanced settings and whatnot fairly well...

Also, after an install you'll want to remove the CD/DVD drive - or at least the .ISO... there are more settings for the various CPU types, and ALL the good stuff. It can be done.



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Never had a hang or crash under ESXi.

It might always be a a hardware problem, not a software one... :/

ST

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Re: Re: ESXi -> Proxmox
By: paulie420 to deon on Tue May 06 2025 04:36 pm

Howdy,

While getting it to boot the iso was easy, the install proceeds, but when the VM reboots, it reverts back to the CD. The hard drive doesnt appear to have had the UEFI boot loader installed.

Theres options for UEFI when you create the VM. The PVE documentation is also very helpful - not saying RTFM, but it does cover all the advanced settings and whatnot fairly well...

Well that'll be a many hours I'm not getting back :(

I took the CD and it booted and installed fine on my Pi 4 ESXi server.

I changed my config so that the proxmox VMs PXE booted and that worked a treat. I discovered as part of the setup that the control client I was using "talosctl" was actually a really old version. (I discovered because it wouldnt update kube).

So I fixed talosctl, and then had another go booting the ISO, doing an install, and it worked. Argh :) It must have been related to the old ctrl client I was using. "brew upgrade talosctl" was working, but somehow an old version was still lingering...

Anyway, I've got three nodes running, now to play with Kube. Hoping I can get it to use the ceph that proxmox setup...


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On 07 May 2025, StormTrooper said the following...

It might always be a a hardware problem, not a software one... :/

It looks like there's an issue with the Intel NIC drivers on Debian, found a workaround (see my later post) & so far, so good.


Jay

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