So let’s go ! To perform your installation, you will need the following : But I think that the Team behind the ProxMox VE will probably integrate such capabilities in the next release. It might be possible to modify the init file and include the missing code to have the installer detecting USB devices and perform the installation from a USB Stick. Let’s try doing this right now ! Installing ProxMox VE from a USB Stick – Yes, you can !Īfter some tests (try and errors), I succeeded ( on 2 differents hardware configuration) to start the ProxMox VE installation from a USB Stick ! To perform the installation from the usb stick, you need to manually enter some commands from the terminal session. At this point, we just need to find a way to have the system launching the setup routine even if no CDROM devices are detected. More information about this can be found on the ProxMox VE forums (see these links ). The USB drive will boot without any problem but the ProxMox VE installer will not start and your system will reboot… This behavior can be explained by the fact that the script used by the ProxMox VE installer checks only for CDROM devices. So, I thought that by using utility such as unetbootin, I would transfer the ISO image into a bootable USB Stick and perform the installation from the USB… Well not quite ! I didn’t want to burn a new cdrom from the the ProxMox VE iso image. I came across this limitation during the re-installation of a test environment. This is quite disappointing ! Especially when you know that Vmware or Hyper-V can be installed quite easily from a USB Stick…. Up to Version 1.7, there is no support for installing from a USB thumbdrive. In one of my previous post about ProxMox VE, I mentioned that “at the moment” it is not possible to perform a ProxMox VE installation from a bootable usb sitck. Proxmox VE 2.0 natively support installation from usb devices If you want to deploy Proxmox VE 2.0, You should use the procedure described at.This procedure has been tested with the latest version of Proxmox VE 1.9 and it’s still working !.

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