Install Proxmox on Debian

In this tutorial I describe how to install Proxmox 5.1 on a fresh Debian. In the lower part of the manual, I also explain the routing configuration for Hetzner servers.

First we configure the file /etc/hosts according to our requirements.

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.15.77 prox4m1.proxmox.com prox4m1 pvelocalhost

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

We can test the settings with

hostname --ip-address

The command should return the IP.

Now we add the Proxmox repo to our source list:

echo "deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve stretch pve-no-subscription" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-install-repo.list

And then the key for the repo

wget http://download.proxmox.com/debian/proxmox-ve-release-5.x.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-ve-release-5.x.gpg

Update package list and install upgrades

apt update && apt dist-upgrade

Install Proxmox

apt install proxmox-ve

Call up the Proxmox web interface

Finally, we can call up the web interface with a browser of our choice and log in with the root user:

https://192.168.15.77:8006

I explain the configuration of the network here.