Proxmox-Port

I plan to port Proxmox VE and Proxmox Backup Server to any architecture.

By now, arm64 is finished. https://github.com/jiangcuo/Proxmox-Arm64

1. Source

The Proxmox-Port code is located in the following repositories.

• zfsonlinux
• pve-qemu
• pve-lxc-syscalld
• pve-lxcfs
• pve-installer
• pve-edk2-firmware
• proxmox-mini-journalreader
• proxmox-backup
• proxmox-backup-restore-image
• proxmox-backup-qemu
• pve-manager
• qemu-server
• pve-port-kernel

Master branch is mirror, checkout branch to arm64 / riscv64 / loongarch64 .You can view and build package.

2. Progress

• pve6 base on debian sid(loongarch64) -> done
• pve8 base on debian12(arm64) -> done

3. Support

Mail: jiangcuo@bingsin.com

Issue: https://github.com/jiangcuo/Proxmox-Arm64/issues

Discord: https://discord.gg/ZdbD2gDcnP

Help Page: help.md

Arm64 wiki: https://github.com/jiangcuo/Proxmox-Arm64/wiki

4. Tested platform:

• Rockpi (arm64)
• Raspberry Pi (arm64)
• Amlogic TV box (arm64)
• Kunpeng (arm64)
• FT (arm64)
• Ampere (arm64)
• Apple (arm64,vm only,no kvm support)
• 3A5000 (loongarch64)
• VisionFive2 (riscv64,loongarch64)

5. Features

• ramfb support.
• add more pice on vm,so we can hotplug and use more nets disks.(not perfect)
• set gic-version=host.
• tpm

6. Version

pve

• public version

  • 8.0.3 (arm64)

• testing version

  • 8.0.6 (arm64)
  • 6.4 (loongarch64,riscv64)

pbs

• public version = 2.3.1-1 (arm64)
• testing version = 2.3.1-1 (arm64)

7. Changelog

Changelog

8. Installtion

If you are using arm64 server that supports EFI,you can install proxmox-ve with iso.

https://mirrors.apqa.cn/proxmox/isos/

If you are using u-boot device or failed with iso, you can install proxmox-ve from repo.

Head to the wiki page to learn more.

9. Passthrough

Hardware passthrough looks good

10. More ?

https://github.com/jiangcuo/Proxmox-Arm64/wiki

Current difficulties

Proxmox VE 7 and Proxmox Backup Server use rust.

Some crates and pkg don't work on riscv and loongarch64 yet,cause I can't build pve7.

such as:

• Ring:

  • briansmith/ring#1436 //riscv

  • https://github.com/zhaixiaojuan/ring.git //loong64

  • briansmith/webpki#253

• Criu: checkpoint-restore/criu#1702

I will test the pve6 first.

Interesting thing

Proxmox VE is really awesome！

Thanks to Proxmox adding support for Arm, now I just need to change code

- $arch eq 'aarch64'
+ $arch ne 'x86_64'

and easy support other architectures.

I sincerely hope that Proxmox can make their products support any platform which has kvm supported !