Hi All,

So I've setup Proxmox VE on an Intel 3930k, 32 Gbytes of RAM and 2x 500Gb Samsung 850 Pro Drives.
I'll add a Western Digital 3 Tb drive when I've cleaned it up.

So, the Install of Proxmox is really simple, give it a static IP, and don't forget the password you setup on install.
(I was resetting my router password and things got a bit panicky for a while.)

So why this thread? Cos I like to learn. And where better than to share my exploits and elations with, than you wonderful LT'ers.
Also, to keep track of the different distros I install, and the steps I took to create them. I find it easier to post here, than to write to a notepad doc and save it somewhere on my PC..
(I look to my left and see the main boot drive of Windows 10 and realise I've a lot of docs on there that would be useful)

So plans will include (list to be increased over time), but not in order:
- 2x node linux cluster with heartbeat
- Personal Cloud service
- Media Server (with the 2nd PC, Q6600 CPU with 4 Gbytes RAM and an array of 256 Gb SSDs
- Samba share
- IRC bot server
- Kali, Mint, CentOS, RHEL, Metasploit, Hydrogen (formerly Crunchbang), Ubuntu (with mate or cinnamon)
Enable hyperthreading on 3930k - Completed Feb 18th 2017
- Migrate live distros to different disks (part 1), to a different node (part 2)
Make VMs accessible to internet - Completed Feb 18th 2017
If anyone has any helpful tips or guidance it would be greatly appreciated

Chat soon

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So, the ProxMoss

FormalMoss wrote:Hydrogen (formerly Crunchbang)

its bunsenlabs, not hydrogen.

hydrogen is just the release name.
you didnt call ubuntu yakkety yak either

Consider my mind blown.. right.. now.
Wow, so I'm connected to a VM of Bunsenlabs Hydrogen, running on the Proxmox VE, and all whilst creating this post on the internet
This rox!!
Queue unicorn dancing

Ok, so I now have NAT up and running on proxmox with dhcp!

The way I've configured it now, I need no longer worry about internet access for new images, yay, this is awesome.

Time to make Bunsenlabs auto-start when Proxmox does, so I can vnc to it instead of browsing to the Proxmox Web page directly from my PC.
For me, as I'm still using an Windows 7 PC, this new addition of accessing Proxmox via Bunsenlabs (which is running on Proxmox) is an important step for me
I can now work on Bunsenlabs Hydrogen knowing the Proxmox is working fine - or not - and therefore troubleshoot through Linux vs using Windows 7.


Until I realise that my router doesn't know how to get to the Bunsenlabs distro.. so I need to configure port forwarding on the router.. or.. any suggestions?

So I have roughly 9 working VMs on Proxmox now.. Bunsenlabs' Hydrogen works best and is very secure out of the box. The 200 Mb overhead of RAM usage on the VM is encouraging, as I could use this as a jump-in point to configure the Proxmox VE directly with ssh. Problem is, I need to pull it out of the masqueraded IP I have setup, as I can only access it with VNC Server that goes out over the internet.. which is mad, considering the server is no more than 10 feet away from me

I'll give a rundown of my initial experiences with these distro's shortly.. have to grab a shower, shave, and somehow teleport into town to get some lunch..

Glorious setup. <3

JoshParnell wrote:Glorious setup. <3

Thanks Josh.
In the meantime, I've setup a Windows 7 workstation on proxmox, and have it working with ms office 2010, cmud, eset antivirus, vnc server, and what's best is I can connect into it from the internet )

Losing MS Word to Libreoffice? No thank you, I already had an incident where I sent a CV to a client but not even MS's Office 365 showed me that changes were pending. MPS (Major Panic Stations)!


I'm looking forward to the next part where I do a live migration from one inode to the other (the 2nd one will have an nvidia card on it), then we'll see if I can get vfio working with VNC

o/