Xpenology on Proxmox bounty

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Patrick

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Running out of time this week, I tried getting Xpenology on Proxmox setup today and failed here:
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I want to have an Xpenology instance on a Proxmox server at home. If you can make a step-by-step guide for me to get this working I have $25 for them via PayPal and I am happy to give the guide main site publicity with your name on it if you want.

What I did was:
  • Make a new VM with an ide0 disk - write though cache, used Virtio networking which worked OK
  • Boot from the Xpenology ISO
  • Locate the VM's external IP address
I tried qcow2 and raw disks but that did not work. I must be missing something.

Shoot me a PM if interested.
 

Patrick

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Did you look at this: XPEnology NAS • View topic - Installation on Proxmox (with physical disk assignment). Its dated and for an older release of Xpenology.

Or post #3 from this much newer thread: XPEnology NAS • View topic - Version : 5.2-5592.

Just wondering. I've not tried them either - but if it works I won't even try to claim the bounty for spending 30 seconds with Google.
I tried that and about 3 other methods I googled. Even made videos so I could double check what I was doing :-/
 

nitrobass24

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Any reason you need to "install it inside" Proxmox if its going to a physical disk?

Couldn't you just do a bare metal install?
Shutdown
Boot proxmox
Pass disk to Xpenology VM
Start Xpenology VM
 

Patrick

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Any reason you need to "install it inside" Proxmox if its going to a physical disk?

Couldn't you just do a bare metal install?
Shutdown
Boot proxmox
Pass disk to Xpenology VM
Start Xpenology VM
I do want the boot disk for DSM to be on local storage or a ZFS volume (trying local for now since that seems like it would be easier.)
 

Marsh

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What is the fix?
I am planning to move my Xpenology from Hyper-v to Proxmox later this month.
 

Patrick

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What is the fix?
I am planning to move my Xpenology from Hyper-v to Proxmox later this month.
I bet if you were to do that, it would be easier to just convert the VM. In my case, I had the wrong order on the installation.