My Quest for Hands-Free Proxmox: An Incomplete Attempt at Automated Bliss via Embedded Preseed

My Quest for Hands-Free Proxmox: An Incomplete Attempt at Automated Bliss via Embedded Preseed Hey everyone! Today, I wanted to recount a recent, and ultimately uncompleted, foray into the realm of virtualization automation. My ambition? To achieve a completely unattended installation of Proxmox VE within VirtManager on my trusty Arch Linux machine. The vision was clear: craft a custom ISO with a preseed file meticulously integrated, initiate a VM, and witness Proxmox install itself autonomously, requiring zero manual input. Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? Well, the journey proved to be quite… enlightening in its lack of completion. ...

April 29, 2025 · 5 min · Rohan