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Proxmox


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Proxmox is a commercial company offering specialised products based on Debian GNU/Linux, notably Proxmox Virtual Environment and Proxmox Mail Gateway. Proxmox Virtual Environment is an open-source virtualisation platform for running virtual appliances and virtual machines. Proxmox Mail Gateway is a mail gateway with anti-spam and anti-virus features. The products are offered as free downloads with paid-for support and subscription options.



Average visitor rating: 8.82/10 from 11 review(s).


Proxmox Summary
Distribution Proxmox
Home Page https://www.proxmox.com/
Mailing Lists https://www.proxmox.com/proxmox-ve/support
User Forums https://forum.proxmox.com/
Alternative User Forums
Documentation https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/
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Download Mirrors https://www.proxmox.com/downloadsDistroWatch Torrent Archive
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Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 2023-06-28: Distribution Release: Proxmox 3.0 "Backup Server"
 • 2023-06-22: Distribution Release: Proxmox 8.0 "Virtual Environment"
 • 2023-06-09: Development Release: Proxmox 8.0 Beta "Virtual Environment"
 • 2023-03-23: Distribution Release: Proxmox 7.4 "Virtual Environment"
 • 2022-11-29: Distribution Release: Proxmox 2.3 "Backup Server"
 • 2022-11-22: Distribution Release: Proxmox 7.3 "Virtual Environment"
 • 2022-05-04: Distribution Release: Proxmox 7.2 "Virtual Environment"
 • 2021-11-17: Distribution Release: Proxmox 7.1 "Virtual Environment"
 • 2021-07-06: Distribution Release: Proxmox 7.0 "Virtual Environment"
 • 2021-06-24: Development Release: Proxmox 7.0 Beta 1 "Virtual Environment"
 • 2021-04-15: Distribution Release: Proxmox 1.1 "Backup Server"
 • 2021-03-30: Distribution Release: Proxmox 6.4 "Mail Gateway"
 • More Proxmox releases...

  Headlines:
 • 2022-09-15 Proxmox unveils offline backup mirror tool
 • 2022-05-18 Proxmox Backup Server gains namespaces
 • More Proxmox headlines...

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Feature 8.0 7.4 6.4
Release Date 2023-06-22 2023-03-23 2021-03-30
End Of Life      
Price (US$) Free Free Free
Image Size (MB) 700-900 700-900 700-900
Free Download ISO ISO ISO
Installation Graphical Graphical Graphical
Default Desktop -- -- --
Package Management DEB DEB DEB
Release Model Fixed Fixed Fixed
Office Suite -- -- --
Processor Architecture x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
Init Software systemd systemd systemd
Journaled File Systems ext3 ext3 ext3
Multilingual      
Asian Language Support -- -- --
Full Package List 8.0 7.4 6.4
abiword (3.0.5) -- -- --
alsa-lib (1.2.10) -- -- --
amdgpu (23.0.0) -- -- --
bash (5.2.15) 5.2 5.1 5.0
bind (9.18.19) -- -- --
chromium (117.0.5938.132) -- -- --
cups (2.4.7) -- 2.3.3 2.2.10
dhcp (4.4.3-P1) 4.4.3 4.4.1 4.4.1
e2fsprogs (1.47.0) 1.47.0 1.46.5 1.44.5
firefox (118.0) -- -- --
freetype (2.13.2) 2.12.1 2.10.4 2.9.1
gcc (13.2.0) -- -- --
gimp (2.10.34) -- -- --
glibc (2.38) 2.36 2.31 2.28
gnome-shell (45.0) -- -- --
gnucash (5.4-1) -- -- --
gnumeric (1.12.55) -- -- --
grub (2.06) 2.06 2.06 2.02
gtk (4.12.2) -- -- --
httpd (2.4.57) -- -- --
inkscape (1.3) -- -- --
k3b (23.08.1) -- -- --
kmod (30) 30 28 26
krita (5.1.5) -- -- --
libreoffice (7.6.2) -- -- --
linux (6.5.5) 6.2.16 5.15.102 5.3
lxpanel (0.10.1) -- -- --
mariadb (11.0.3) -- -- --
mate-desktop (1.26.2) -- -- --
mesa (23.1.8) -- -- --
mysql (8.1.0) -- -- --
nautilus (45.0) -- -- --
NVIDIA (535.113.01) -- -- --
openbox (3.6.1) -- -- --
openjdk (21) -- -- --
openssh (9.4p1) 9.2p1 8.4p1 7.9p1
openssl (3.1.3) 3.0.9a 1.1.1n 1.1.1d
perl (5.38.0) 5.36.0 5.32.1 5.28.1
php (8.2.11) -- -- --
plasma-desktop (5.27.8) -- -- --
postfix (3.8.2) 3.7.5 3.5.17 3.4.14
postgresql (16.0) -- -- 11.11
Python (3.11.5) 3.11.2 3.9.2 3.7.3
qt (6.5.3) 5.15.8 -- --
samba (4.19.0) 4.17.8 4.13.13 4.9.5
systemd (254.5) 252.6 247.3 241
thunderbird (115.3.0) -- -- --
vim (9.0) 9.0 8.2 8.1
vlc (3.0.18) -- -- --
wayland (1.22.0) -- -- --
xfdesktop (4.18.1) -- -- --
xorg-server (21.1.8) -- -- --

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Version: 8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-07-09
Votes: 22


Provides hundreds of enterprise class features completely for free and additionally enterprise support, which is nice if one uses it for (work) infrastructure.

I have hundreds of VMs and container running on a hyper-converged ceph cluster without a sweat since Proxmox VE 4, always could upgrade in-place without any actual trouble, following the official upgrade how-to pays off I guess.

The PVE API is also great, allows for customization and automating lots of setup specific tasks; cannot wait until the software defined network is out of experimental preview, as that's one of the last things still missing (and from what I could gather in their forum and some testlab tries it seems pretty promising already).


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Version: 8.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-06-29
Votes: 2


A good distro for a custom task.
In general I'm not a fan of distro proliferation, but when they have a custom purpose it is fine to have a new distro.
I have tested both the x86 version and the arm64 porting. On arm it is still a bit rough.
On x86 it is pretty simple to use: one can handle VM and containers easely.
Perfect for building a home lab.
If you intend to use it in production, well I strongly suggest to pay for the support.
For production I also suggest to use zfs to increase availability.


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Version: 8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-27
Votes: 3


I've been using Proxmox for the past 3 years and can't say enough good things about it. Easy to set up, creating containers or VM's is simple, and stability is really good.

I love that if one of my containers has an issue (either in an update to the service, or my own tinkering) I can easily go to my backups and restore the container in seconds. Even if you want to try something, it's easy to spin up a new container.

The only thing I could ask for is that the CPU temp be added to the summary page.


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