Always had this love-hate relationship with my homelab. It all started with VMware ESXi as my host OS — life was good… until it wasn’t, hardware change. Then I went and treated myself to an Asus MiniPC with an AMD Ryzen 7 and that one special Realtek NIC that apparently hates stability as much as I hate random kernel panics as there is no driver available with any version of Vmware ESXI at all, so needed to custom build the VMware ESXI ISO. 😩
After countless issues, tantrums, and late-night “why won’t you just work?!” moments, I finally waved the white flag and moved to Proxmox. And boy, after a dozen hiccups, tweaks, and maybe a small sacrifice to the homelab gods, I think I’ve finally achieved nirvana.
So, before I mess it all up again, here’s my guide — partly for future-me, partly for anyone else on this wild ride.
Step 1: Grab the latest version of Proxmox from 👉 Proxmox Downloads
Step 2: Follow the install process and let it boot.
Step 3: Once rebooted and system is up. SSH and login to the root shell.
Step 4: Install ProxMenux. A wonderful piece of tool for ProxMox super easy management. Use following command to install it.
bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MacRimi/ProxMenux/main/install_proxmenux.sh)"Step 5: Reboot the system. Once done, login to shell again and type menu. It will show an interface like following:
Choose option 1 first – >Then choose option 2 "Automated post-installation script."
Step 6: Go Back and then Choose option 8 "Utilities and Tools" --> then choose option 2 "System Utilities Installer" - install all tools.
Step 7: Install Processor Microcode using following command
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/main/tools/pve/microcode.sh)"
Step 8: Install pv , it will help you later on.
apt install pvLastly - reboot the host once and you are ready with stable ProxMox host box.