Step-by-Step Guide to Enabling the New OVA Import Feature in Proxmox 8.3 Proxmox recently added the ability to import OVA’s directly to your environment from the GUI. This guide will help you enable those capabilites and demonstrate the features by deploying a Home Assistant OVA. This guide requires your PVE environment to be running 8.3.0 or higher. Configure the Local Storage: Navigate to the Datacenter view and select the “Storage” panel. ...

Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up a Kali Virtual Machine in Proxmox Download the Kali ISO: On the Proxmox homepage, navigate to your storage that holds ISO images. In this example, we use the default local storage. Go to the “ISO Images” tab and click “Download from URL.” Get the Kali NetInstaller ISO: Open a new tab and go to the official Kali Linux website. Scroll down to the NetInstaller tile, right-click the download icon, and select “Copy link address.” ...

Setting Up Pi-hole on Proxmox: A Step-by-Step Guide Accessing Local Storage: From the Proxmox homepage, navigate to the local storage resource. Downloading a Container Template: Select the “CT Templates” field and click on the “Templates” button. A menu will pop up. In the search box, type “ubuntu”. For this guide, we’ll be using Ubuntu 24.02. Select your desired version and click the download button at the bottom right corner of the menu. ...

Dell Wyse 5060 Storage Upgrade I came across the Dell Wyse 5060, a nifty little thin client, on eBay for a bargain price of around $30. Initially, I used it as a QDevice for my Proxmox Cluster, but its downside was the limited 16GB storage. However, my recent foray into playing around with LXC Containers sparked an idea. Could this thin client serve as a virtualization host? With an old Kingston 480GB SSD lying around, I wondered if its internals could fit into the Wyse 5060 enclosure. To my delight, after disassembling the Kingston SSD, I found a tiny SSD chip tucked away inside. What’s more, the resemblance between this chip and the original drive in the thin client was uncanny. It was time to put it to the test! ...

WatchTower is a docker container that monitors and updates other containers on a system. The following command can be run to not only launch the command, but enable debugging, cleanup and setting a schedule. docker run --detach \ --name watchtower \ --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \ -e WATCHTOWER_CLEANUP='true' \ -e WATCHTOWER_DEBUG='true' \ -e TZ='America/Chicago' \ -e WATCHTOWER_SCHEDULE='0 0 1 * * *' \ containrrr/watchtower:latest As long as docker is installed an running, this will monitor your docker containers for the updates and keep them up to date! ...

This is the command to change the timezone to America\Chicago for Debian: sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Chicago

Resolve Linux Hostnames on Windows Systems The following are the steps for enabling the ability to ping a Debian Linux system by hostname on a Windows system Step 1: Update and install packages with the following command. sudo apt-get update && apt-get install winbind samba -y Step 2: Launch a text editor (in this case nano) to modify nsswitch.conf. sudo nano /etc/nsswitch.conf Step 3: Append the “hosts:” portion to the following and save the changes. ...