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Debian

Install Proxmox on ready Debian system. Benefits:

  • unusual disk setup (i.e. not using ZFS for raid, only generic MD or LVM raid)
  • for lazy people: running system with remote access only

Setup repositories

Package Repositories Detailed step-by-step instuciton wiki

It is very important (to SSL key generation), that hostname is resolved do IP address of device: 

hostname --ip-address
192.168.15.77 # should return your IP address here
echo 'deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pve-no-subscription' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-no-sub.list

wget http://download.proxmox.com/debian/proxmox-ve-release-6.x.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-ve-release-6.x.gpg apt-get update apt-get install ifupdown2 open-iscsi apt-get install proxmox-ve </code>

Reboot system. System will boot with default Debian kernel, because Buster Backports kernel is newer than Proxmox one.

To try to boor PVE kernel once: 

grep -i "menuentry '" /boot/grub/grub.cfg
grub-reboot 'Proxmox Virtual Environment GNU/Linux, with Linux 5.3.18-3-pve'

issues

pveproxy: failed to load local private key

Proxmox was installed with incorrect /etc/hosts configuration. After fixing it still shows errors in journal: 

pveproxy[26742]: /etc/pve/local/pve-ssl.key: failed to load local private key (key_file or key) at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/APIServer/AnyEvent.pm line 1727.
pveproxy[26743]: /etc/pve/local/pve-ssl.key: failed to load local private key (key_file or key) at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/APIServer/AnyEvent.pm line 1727.
journalctl -u pve-cluster
 
systemd[1]: Stopped The Proxmox VE cluster filesystem.
systemd[1]: Starting The Proxmox VE cluster filesystem...
pmxcfs[2398]: [main] crit: Unable to get local IP address
pmxcfs[2398]: [main] crit: Unable to get local IP address
systemd[1]: pve-cluster.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
systemd[1]: pve-cluster.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
systemd[1]: Failed to start The Proxmox VE cluster filesystem.

Reason cluster FS on /etc/pve was not started, symlinks to nodes points to nowhere: 

/etc/pve# tree
.
├── local -> nodes/host281
├── lxc -> nodes/host281/lxc
├── openvz -> nodes/host281/openvz
└── qemu-server -> nodes/host281/qemu-server

Reboot device

local-zfs

Missing local-zfs.