From e8e9bd927a99c1818377df6035fe7e9f9a3c48e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Claude Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 06:01:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add RAM MiB reference table and clarify raw drive passthrough MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit - Memory tab: 49152 MiB (48 GiB) with common GiB→MiB conversion table - Drive passthrough: note that raw drives bypass Proxmox storage entirely Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 --- README.md | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 79e7a40..620843c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2202,7 +2202,23 @@ Click **Next**. | Field | Value | |-------|-------| -| Memory (MiB) | 16384 | +| Memory (MiB) | 49152 | + +Common MiB values for reference: + +| GiB | MiB to enter | +|-----|-------------| +| 8 GiB | 8192 | +| 16 GiB | 16384 | +| 32 GiB | 32768 | +| 48 GiB | 49152 | +| 64 GiB | 65536 | +| 96 GiB | 98304 | +| 128 GiB | 131072 | + +> 48 GiB (49152) is a good starting point for a desktop+NAS VM on a server +> with 128–256 GiB total RAM. Adjust based on how much you want to reserve for +> the host and other VMs. Click **Next**. @@ -2337,6 +2353,11 @@ find it automatically. ### Step 11.6 — Add raw data drives to VM 100 via CLI +> **You do NOT add bare drives to Proxmox storage.** Proxmox storage (local-lvm, +> local, etc.) is only for VM disk images. Raw drives are passed directly to the +> VM as block devices — they bypass Proxmox storage entirely and appear inside +> the VM as `/dev/sdb`, `/dev/sdc`, etc. No storage pool setup required. + The web UI does not support raw block device passthrough cleanly — use the Proxmox CLI. SSH into the host: