Overview
This guide will help you to install Virtualizor on Proxmox 3.x, 4.x,5.x and 6.x .
Installing Softaculous Virtualizor for Proxmox is very simple.
Requirements
- Proxmox OS (ISO can be downloaded from here )
- apt-get
- Storage to create the VPSs disks
Notes : Proxmox 3.x, 4.x or 5.x or 6.x MUST be installed before installing Virtualizor.
Partition Scheme
| Partition | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| / | 80-100 GB | Root partition containing all Hardware Node operating system files, OS templates and ISOs |
| SWAP | 4 GB + | Paging partition for the Linux operating system(Swap memory is been used by virtual servers if there is shortage of real memory) |
| Storage | All the remaining space on the hard disk | This partition can be used to create either Logical Volumes or File Based Storage for the VPS (DomUs). NOTE for LVM : You must NOT create any Logical Volume and MOUNT it. This must be an EMPTY VOLUME GROUP. Virtualizor will not delete any pre-existing LVs in the Volume Group. But its recommended to have an empty Volume Group. NOTE for File Storage : You must create and mount the folder. |
Supported storage types
For QEMU and LXC
( LVM | File | Thin LVM | ZFS | ZFS Thin | ZFS Compressed | ZFS Thin Compressed )
Proxmox 7 Login Issue
If you are using proxmox 7 and facing virtualizor login issue then follow this steps:
1. SSH to your server and execute the following command
nano /etc/pam.d/common-password
2. Look for "password [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so obscure yescrypt" line
3. Change the yescrypt in above line to sha512
4. Change the server password and try to login into virtualizor again
Installation
Open a Shell Terminal (e.g. PuTTY) and SSH to your server. Run the following commands:
wget -N http://files.virtualizor.com/install.sh
chmod 0755 install.sh
./install.sh email=your@email.com kernel=proxmox
Please give the email address correctly !
Installation Parameters
- email - The Admin Email Address
- kernel - In this case its proxmox
- beta - If there is a newer version of Virtualizor available and you would like to test it then please add beta=true as a parameter
- interface - You can specify the default interface that you want to set. If not provided it will be considered as eth0.
- license - In case you are installing Virtualizor on internal network you will need to provide the VALID license key. To get internal license key you will need to open a support ticket.
The installation will begin immediately. It may seem that the installation has stopped, if your network speed is slow, but please let it continue. You will see something like this :
You can then visit the Admin Panel to create the Storage and the Virtual Servers and also manage your server.
Note : A log file of the installation process will be created - /root/virtualizor.log
Login
To login to the Softaculous Virtualizor Admin Panel, visit the following URL :
Login with the servers root details.
Admin Panel
After you login, you will see the Admin Panel Dashboard :
Ports
Virtualizor uses ports from 4081 - 4085.
If there is any firewall restricting this, you will need to allow these ports.
TroubleShoot
NOTE : In all cases please remember to disable SElinux. The Virtualizor installer will try to disable it. For KVM make sure that VT is enabled from bios so VPS can be able to started.
NAT Pool is not supported for Proxmox.
Input correct Proxmox Server Name and password in Configuration->Slave settings before trying to create vps/add storage.
You can find Proxmox Server Name in pvesh get nodes command output on your server
Cant open http://IP-Address:4084
Please check if your iptables firewall is running You can disable it with the following command :
root> service iptables stop
Error : The storage doesn't exist
If you get this error while adding Storage, please execute the following command :
root> vgchange -ay
Above command should fix the issue.
Disk resize issue
NOTE : For vps hostname/disk resize issues on Proxmox 7 with sfdisk version 2.36+ , follow these steps to downgrade sfdisk on the server :
mv /sbin/sfdisk /sbin/sfdisk_new
wget -O /sbin/sfdisk http://files.virtualizor.com/utility/sfdisk
chmod 755 /sbin/sfdisk