#hardware
Every post tagged hardware.
Blog posts
Can You Install Proxmox VE on a Raspberry Pi? What Actually Works Instead
Proxmox VE needs a 64-bit x86 CPU with Intel VT-x or AMD-V, hardware a Raspberry Pi doesn't have. Here's why the official installer won't boot on a Pi, how to check your own hardware, and which cheap x86 mini PCs actually work as a Proxmox host.
How to Monitor Disk Health With S.M.A.R.T. in Proxmox VE (Catch a Failing Drive Before It Dies)
Proxmox VE can warn you weeks before a drive fails. Here's how to read SMART health data from the GUI and CLI, and set up smartd email alerts for SATA, SAS, and NVMe drives.
How to Check If Your Hardware Supports Proxmox VE Before You Install It
Before you install Proxmox VE, spend fifteen minutes checking your CPU, RAM, storage, and BIOS settings. This guide shows the exact commands and BIOS options to check first.
How to Pass Through an NVMe SSD to a VM in Proxmox VE (PCIe and Raw Disk Methods)
Give a VM direct, low-overhead access to a physical NVMe drive using PCIe (VFIO) passthrough or raw disk passthrough in Proxmox VE, including IOMMU setup, driver binding, and the hardware quirks that trip people up.
How to Set Up USB Device Passthrough for VMs and LXC Containers in Proxmox VE
A practical guide to passing USB devices — dongles, serial adapters, webcams, and security keys — into Proxmox VE virtual machines and LXC containers, covering vendor/ID and physical-port binding, cluster-wide Resource Mappings, and the modern pct device-passthrough workflow for unprivileged containers.