Raspberry Pi 5 16GB¶

My Raspberry Pi 5 16GB is being used as another arm64 Proxmox server.

Config¶

Enable PCIe¶

echo "dtparam=pciex1_gen=3" | sudo tee -a config.txt

echo "dtparam=pciex1" | sudo tee -a config.txt

dtparam=pciex1_gen=3

dtparam=pciex1

Enable auto detection PCIe and booting from NVMe¶

rpi-eeprom-config --edit

sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit

PCIE_PROBE=1

BOOT_ORDER=0xf416

The 6 means to enable booting from nvme. Reboot Raspberry Pi 5 and try to use lsblk or lspci -vvv to get more details of the PCIe device.

Enable 5A PSU¶

If apt is slow, it might be due to the pi reducing the power input.

rpi-eeprom-config --edit

sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit

PSU_MAX_CURRENT=5000

Set Resolution¶

When using a TV as a temporary monitor, usually when troubleshooting the booting from a USB or NVMe drive, the text size can be way too small. This is how to change the resolution on boot of the command line so that it can be read more easily on the TV.

sed -i `1s/$/ video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080M@60D/' /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt

video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080M@60D

PXVIRT¶

Setup LVM first

Setup Raspberry Pi OS¶

See Raspberry Pi OS setup.

Install PXVIRT¶

Add the PXVIRT repository¶

echo 'deb https://download.lierfang.com/pxcloud/pxvirt bookworm main'>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pxvirt.list

deb https://download.lierfang.com/pxcloud/pxvirt bookworm main

curl -L https://mirrors.lierfang.com/proxmox/debian/pveport.gpg -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/pveport.gpg 

apt update && apt full-upgrade

apt install --allow-downgrades -y ifupdown2 pxvirt pve-manager=8.3.5-1+port2 qemu-server=8.3.8+port5 postfix open-iscsi

Configure packages which require user input on installation according to your needs (e.g. Samba asking about WINS/DHCP support). If you have a mail server in your network, you should configure postfix as a satellite system, your existing mail server will then be the relay host which will route the emails sent by the Proxmox server to their final recipient.

If you don't know what to enter here, choose local only and leave the system name as is.

Reenable SSH¶

sudo sed -i 's/^#?\s*PermitRootLogin\s+.*/PermitRootLogin yes/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config

PermitRootLogin yes

Finally, you can connect to the admin web interface (https://youripaddress:8006).

Network¶

Missing vmbr0¶

<node> -> Network -> Create
Name: vmbr0
IPv4: 192.168.1.192/24
Gateweay: 192.168.1.1 
Bridge Ports: eth0

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
        address 192.168.2.192/24
        gateway 192.168.2.1
        bridge-ports eth0
        bridge-stp off
        bridge-fd 0

Where eth0 is the current existing network interface

Repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease' changed its 'Version' value from '' to '10.0' Error¶

apt --allow-releaseinfo-change update

Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts¶

(
  bash -c "$(curl -sL https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/raw/main/misc/update-repo.sh)" &&
  bash -c "$(curl -sL https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/raw/main/misc/post-pve-install.sh)"
)

Swap¶

The Raspberry Pi uses dphys-swapfile to manage it's swap.

For Proxmox, I'm using a logical volume instead of a swap file.

Change Swap Size¶

free -h

dphys-swapfile swapoff

CONF_SWAPSIZE=2048

(
  dphys-swapfile setup
  dphys-swapfile swapon
)

free -h

Disable Permanently¶

dphys-swapfile swapoff

systemctl stop dphys-swapfile

systemctl disable dphys-swapfile

rm /var/swap

LVM¶

See LVM.

References¶

• https://a.co/d/etvDazc
• https://docs.pxvirt.lierfang.com/en/README.html