In this article, I will show you how to create a Ubuntu 24.04 LTS virtual machine (VM) on Proxmox VE. This article is the foundation of the Proxmox VE Ubuntu 24.04 LTS VM GPU passthrough guide. Once you have a Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Proxmox VE VM set up, you can passthrough a GPU (i.e. NVIDIA…
If you passthrough an NVIDIA GPU to an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Proxmox VE virtual machine (VM), you get many benefits, such as: Stream the display of the VM directly on the monitor connected to the NVIDIA GPU. Add a USB keyboard and a mouse to the VM and use the VM like a real desktop…
If you passthrough an NVIDIA GPU to a Fedora 40 Proxmox VE virtual machine, you get many benefits, such as: Stream the virtual machine’s display directly on the monitor connected to the NVIDIA GPU. Add a USB keyboard and a mouse to the virtual machine and use it like a real desktop computer. Get near-native…
Downloading the Fedora 40 ISO Image and Transferring it to Proxmox VE To install Fedora 40 on a Proxmox VE virtual machine, you will need the ISO installation image of Fedora 40. You can download the ISO image of Fedora Workstation (the default Fedora spin with GNOME desktop environment) from this link. Fedora 40 has…
For GPU passthrough to work or for installing specific device drivers on a Proxmox VE virtual machine, you may need to disable UEFI Secure Boot on your Proxmox VE virtual machine. In this article, I will show you how to disable UEFI secure boot on a Proxmox VE virtual machine. The procedures shown in this…
Proxmox VE 8 is one of the best open-source and free Type-I hypervisors out there for running QEMU/KVM virtual machines (VMs) and LXC containers. It has a nice web management interface and a lot of features. One of the most amazing features of Proxmox VE is that it can passthrough PCI/PCIE devices (i.e. an NVIDIA…
If IOMMU interrupt remapping is not supported on your processor, you will have to configure unsafe interrupts on your Proxmox VE server to passthrough PCI/PCIE devices on Proxmox VE virtual machines. Add the following line in the iommu_unsafe_interrupts.conf file and press + X followed by Y and to save the file. options vfio_iommu_type1 allow_unsafe_interrupts=1 …
Proxmox VE (Virtualization Environment) is an open-source enterprise virtualization and containerization platform. It has a built-in user-friendly web interface for managing virtual machines and LXC containers. It has other features such as Ceph software-defined storage (SDS), software-defined networking (SDN), high availability (HA) clustering, and many more. After the recent Broadcom acquisition of VMware, the cost…
Most of the operating system distributes their installer program in ISO image format. So, the most common way of installing an operating system on a Proxmox VE virtual machine is using an ISO image of that operating system. You can obtain the ISO image file of your favorite operating systems from their official website. To…
Keeping your Proxmox VE server up-to-date is important as newer updates come with bug fixes and improved security. If you’re using the Proxmox VE community version (the free version of Proxmox VE without an enterprise subscription), installing new updates will also add new features to your Proxmox VE server as they are released. In this…