Proxmox basic questions about installation

[drossbach]

I am playing arround with the X68 community version. After download the vmdx files I got the system up and running on a Vmware workstation 17.x. Next step should be to see, how it runs on a Proxmox VE. I got the VMDK files transfered, converted and loaded, the .conf updated, following the hints in this forum, but when it comes to connect to the system console/boot manager via Telnet, i am stuck.
What do I have to do? A step by step tutorial would bve perfect. I have systems with telnet installed on Windows 10, Debian 12, and Alpha VMS 8.2, but that's it ... AndyesI get a console message to access the system console via Telnet.
So. what's next?
Any help is highly appreciated.

(Home Assistant, DebMatic, Debian and Windows host run fine and smooth on my PVEserver)

Dieter

[reinhardtjh]

I have an x86 V9.2-2 running in a Proxmox VE 8.2.2 host. I was not able to get the CLP VMDK to work - kept getting an error (I forget what now) so fell back to using the previous install ISO.

I tried for along time to get a telnet port to work with PE but failed there, too. I use the console on the PE Web interface long enough to get ssh going the, use a terminal emulator to connect. I went between 2 or 3 sites that had information on the telnet connection, but found it very obtuse. Since then I have not had time to try again, but I intend to figure it out. I also have an x86 OpenVMS running on ESXi and the telnet to console works nicely there.

[hajo]

Hallo Dieter,

I'm running vms under proxmox (8.2.4) for a while without trouble beside the switch to a new qemu version and the need to modify the .conf file to reflect the switch of passing args (args: -machine hpet=off).

I assume that your VM starts without problems. Now you have to connect with a noVNC console to the graphical output of your vms machine. Just type 'b' to boot your vms instance and from this point, you can connect via the 'serial' console (defined at proxmox -> Hardware -> serial port) to the system.

Good luck

Hans-Joachim

[reinhardtjh]

you can connect via the 'serial' console (defined at proxmox -> Hardware -> serial port) to the system.

At least for me, that is the problem. Serial port (serial0) is defined as "socket". ProxMox is wanting something ese in the config file and getting that part has been the problem.

[hajo]

Hello John,

as far as I remember me (I set up the vms VM some months ago, and I'm over 65 ) I've just added the serial port to the VM as socket.
I set my VM as autobooting vms using the graphical console, and can connect to the running VM via the console tab selecting xterm.js terminal.

Hope this helps.

Hans-Joachim

[bit0mike]

Another option is to ssh into your Proxmox system and use

qm terminal xxx

where xxx is the 3-digit VM ID. You probably have to be root.