Vmware Workstation To Proxmox

[Brian]

Proxmoxis one of my favourite hypervisors out there, though it does not support all the features that ESXi provides, it is still a great alternative to ESXi and moreover it is open source and free for anyone to use it.

Sometimes, you may want to test the proxmox in your PC, or you would want to install Proxmox on a virtualized environment, so that you can run small VMs or multiple containers in your LAB environment.

I know you came to this post to learn more about the installation of proxmox in VMware workstation pro, however If you wanted to know how you can install Proxmox on virtualbox which I have covered in detail in our previous article.

In the hardware compatibility window, choose Vmware workstation version 17, if you have another version, you will have to choose your version from the list and click on Next.

We are now going to use the Proxmox iso file that we downloaded earlier in this step, in the new window, choose installer disk image file (iso) and click on browse to browse for the file and click on next.

You can learn more about the VMware workstation network types in VMware workstation here, so I would recommend reading that in case you would like to configure the network based on your need.

If you have not enabled the hardware based virtualisation on your machine, you might get an error message here, so in case if you are getting an error message, go to this article to fix it, and come back here to continue.

Since I have selected Bridge interface, in the loading screen you would now see the dhcp discover packet was send, and my LAN router has assigned a local IP address from the 192.168.1.0/24 network to the Proxmox server.

IP address: My Proxmox server already has an IP address so I am leaving the same IP address, in case if you are planning to use different IP addresses, you might need to change to something of your choice.

Installing Proxmox is pretty easy, however to install multiple virtual machines and run them you need to have a good configuration PC. You also need to be mindful for the fact that we are doing nested virtualization, so you cannot expect to have rock solid performance. However this setup is good if you would like to setup multiple containers.

I troubleshoot, break stuff and eventually fix it and learn from it :)

My name is Saifudheen Sidheeq. I have been in the technical field for over a decade now. In my blog, I talk about Networking, Virtualization, Linux, and so on.

No. The current image is created solely to facilitate internal dev/test work in vmware workstation/fusion and is not formally supported (and not on other hypervisors) so we have no desire to create more versions. If it happens to run anywhere else it's a coincidence, and if it breaks (and it does, because staff are not using it often) then we have no promise of fixing things.

I've been chasing this for two days now. I got it to work fine using a Nvidia gpu with legacy image and then i tried to use it on an 11th gen iGPU and proxmox completely hangs at the splash screen. If I remove the GPU passthrough it gets past that point and stops at LibreElect 11.0.1 text.

my problem with the particular proliant server I was working with esxi would not see the drives to install, did not matter what type of raid I used or what bios setting I used . curious where you able to import vmware containers into proxmox as I have not quite found the time yet to play with it

No I just recreated them from scratch as I wanted to use containers rather than VMs. Using the Ubuntu 20.04 template, I have moved my Pi-hole VM to a container, mosquitto broker to a container and emoncms to a container (not migrated the data yet). I used the HA OS image and created a VM but it seems to want a lot of memory. Going to try the Supervised route.

Yes, another proxmox install here too. Moved from a single all-in-one ubuntu server to three proxmox servers to get some fail-over support, and reduced clashing of updates between systems, for a range of services, one being emoncms. VMs rather than containers, but considering them for future installs. Seems to be working well.

my pc is connected to a 55" Samsung TV in the living room and with a long hdmi cable to a display in my home office. Also the current configuration is not clean, because I have taken the os installtion on my ssd from my parent pc. So I think the power consumption will be lower without the current configuration.

At the moment the hdd has no chance to spindown with XPEnolgy, because i have everything installed from the package center for testing but I don't know if spin down with vmware workstation rdm works at all.

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