PVE8-ARM fresh install

pve8arm-fresh.txt

***Pi-Mox8 setup on raspberry pi 4b (cm4 you will need to add the appropriate steps for your hw setup)


***Raspberry PI OS setup

***Install raspbian x64 lite on raspberry pi

pull the latest copy of Raspberry Pi Imager, from here https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ and Raspberry PI OS x64 lite based on debian 11 bullseye from here: https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/#raspberry-pi-os-64-bit

open imager, click choose os, scroll to the bottom and select custom. open the image "2023-05-03-raspios-bullseye-arm64-lite.img.xz"
select storage and choose your usb device
click gear icon and add hostname, enable ssh, set username and pw etc.
write to usb/sd card then install in raspberry pi and boot system
once the system is up ssh into your new system


set root pw
`sudo passwd root`

login as root
`sudo su -`

open tmux session (this is not mandatory if you know you have a good network connection to the target)
`tmux new -s pimoxinstall`

install some tools to make life easier
`apt install -y neofetch tmux`

run updates
`apt update && apt upgrade -y`

***Setup your sources file for upgrade to debian 12 bookworm7

check again that your packages are all up to date
`apt update`

make a backup of your sources file
`cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.bck`

update your sources files to bookworm
`sed -i -e 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list`
`sed -i -e 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list`
`sed -i -e 's/non-free/non-free-firmware/g' /etc/apt/sources.list`


update and upgrade system to bookworm
`apt update && apt dist-upgrade -y`
I selected to allow the tool to restart services without asking me
I also selected "Y" for each request to use the package maintainers file ver YMMV
this part of the process took me the longest so be patient
`reboot now`

login again as root

***Setup for proxmox8-arm64

Add Key for proxmox-arm8 mirror
`curl https://mirrors.apqa.cn/proxmox/debian/pveport.gpg -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/pveport.gpg`

create pveport.list file and populate with mirror info
`echo "deb https://global.mirrors.apqa.cn/proxmox/debian/pve bookworm port">/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pveport.list`

`apt update`

add your ip and hostname to the /etc/hosts file
`nano /etc/hosts`
comment out the 127.0.1.1 address if thats in your hosts file

***Install PVE packages

`apt install -y proxmox-ve postfix open-iscsi`
for postfix config I selected "Local only" > then confirmed the same hostname entered earlier

verify everything is current no other updates needed
`apt update`

**Install dark theme**:
`bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Weilbyte/PVEDiscordDark/master/PVEDiscordDark.sh ) install`

Disable popup about subscription:
open ssh session to your system

`sed -Ezi.bak "s/(Ext.Msg.show\\(\\{\\s+title: gettext\\('No valid sub)/void\\(\\{ \\/\\/\\1/g" /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js && systemctl restart pveproxy.service`

increase swap space:
`nano /etc/dphys-swapfile`
increase the swap file space to 1gb or 1024 - "CONF\_SWAPSIZE=1024" - save the file then reboot the system

login to web interface

setup your normal config as per your own spec (add bridge0 users groups roles storage etc)


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After PVE install

        `sMMMMMMMd:      :mMMMMMMMs`           OS: Proxmox VE 8.0.3-1 aarch64 
`-/+oo+/:`.yMMMMMMMh-  -hMMMMMMMy.`:/+oo+/-`   Host: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.4 
`:oooooooo/`-hMMMMMMMyyMMMMMMMh-`/oooooooo:`   Kernel: 6.1.21-v8+ 
  `/oooooooo:`:mMMMMMMMMMMMMm:`:oooooooo/`     Uptime: 2 mins 
    ./ooooooo+- +NMMMMMMMMN+ -+ooooooo/.       Packages: 1140 (dpkg) 
      .+ooooooo+-`oNMMMMNo`-+ooooooo+.         Shell: bash 5.2.15 
        -+ooooooo/.`sMMs`./ooooooo+-           Terminal: /dev/pts/1 
          :oooooooo/`..`/oooooooo:             CPU: BCM2835 (4) @ 1.800GHz 
          :oooooooo/`..`/oooooooo:             Memory: 1004MiB / 7812MiB 
        -+ooooooo/.`sMMs`./ooooooo+-
      .+ooooooo+-`oNMMMMNo`-+ooooooo+.                                 
    ./ooooooo+- +NMMMMMMMMN+ -+ooooooo/.                               
  `/oooooooo:`:mMMMMMMMMMMMMm:`:oooooooo/`
`:oooooooo/`-hMMMMMMMyyMMMMMMMh-`/oooooooo:`
`-/+oo+/:`.yMMMMMMMh-  -hMMMMMMMy.`:/+oo+/-`
        `sMMMMMMMm:      :dMMMMMMMs`
       `hMMMMMMd/          /dMMMMMMh`
         `://:`              `://:`

Amazing thank you.
Maybe you can enable "issues"? Anybody has a problem with display of the memory usage (summary tab) of a lxc? It never shows any data. Happens with new and resored containers. A time ago i tried on a different server an upgrade from pimox7 to 8 there it works.

@knight-research - I looked around and dont see any way to enable issues for a "gist" Could be wrong but it sounds like your issue isnt so much with the upgrade/install process as it is with the product functioning.

You might want to post your question here:
https://github.com/jiangcuo/Proxmox-Arm64

or here:
https://github.com/pimox/pimox7

@knight-research, I found this fix on the github.com/jiangcuo page buried in the issues section:
please modify cmdline.txt like
nano /boot/cmdline.txt

put the following parameters to the end of the line

cgroup_enable=cpuset cgroup_enable=memory cgroup_memory=1

Run this then reboot your proxmox node, and it will show the memory for the containers properly.

Edit: Nevermind, the issue is related to something else which I have yet to discover

Hey, this is missing an important step, which is the installation of ifupdown, otherwise the interface where Proxmox is listening doesn't come up when you reboot