Documents creating four Minecraft VMs (201-204) on the second Proxmox
host (R720), following the same wizard-driven setup style as Phases
11-12 but without GPU/Coral/raw-disk passthrough, which only applies
to the R730xd. Adds matching VM config templates.
The generic awk detection command produced no output on this hardware
because lscpu column layout differed. Replace with hardcoded correct
values derived from actual lscpu -e output on the R730xd.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CTRZQmUSrYXFC6WkcypYPv
Scans /dev/sd?, skips OS drive (sda) and USB sticks (<100 GiB), checks
which drives are already attached to any VM, then prints (or applies with
--apply) the qm set commands for the next free scsi slot on the target VM.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CTRZQmUSrYXFC6WkcypYPv
Move Coral USB passthrough to after VM 101 creation. Expand VM 101 wizard
to full tab-by-tab format matching VM 100 with NUMA, ballooning disabled,
VirtIO-GPU, and security VLAN network settings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Graphic card: VirtIO-GPU is new name for Default in Proxmox 9
- Disk: 600 GiB, add IO thread, explain SSD emulation not needed
- Memory: disable ballooning for VM 100 (NUMA pinning), set min=max
- GPU PCI device: add ROM-Bar row, explain why it must stay checked
- OS version: 6.x kernel correct for Ubuntu 24.04
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drives on VL805 card get stable /dev/optical-drive1 and /dev/optical-drive2
symlinks via port-based udev rules. Explains why vendor/device ID binding
fails for identical drives.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VL805/VIA card at 82:00.0 passed to VM 100 (services) as PCIe device.
Coral TPU uses built-in server USB ports for VM 101 (Frigate).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Place <a href="#top">↑ Back to top</a> before each Phase heading
and at end of file for easy navigation in GitHub rendered view.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add Enable NUMA row to CPU table
- Explain NUMA node pinning and cross-socket penalty
- Note nested-virt flag appears automatically with host CPU type
- Clarify NUMA checkbox location (Processors, not Memory dialog)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VM 100 is now the main services VM (Ubuntu Desktop, GPU, HDDs, Immich/Jellyfin/
Audiobookshelf/NAS). VM 101 is Frigate on a security VLAN with Coral USB.
VM 102 is Windows 11 for Sync.com. Updated all references throughout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Step 11.11: rewrite install steps for Ubuntu Desktop (not Server)
- Step 11.13: new step — sed one-liner to force Xorg via gdm3/custom.conf
- Step 11.14: add Wayland disable for VM 101, update VM 102 to Windows install
- Explain why Wayland breaks WinApps tsclient home drive sharing
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Step 11.6: enable nested KVM on Proxmox host (kvm-intel nested=Y)
- Step 11.7: find HDD by-id paths with lsblk and ls /dev/disk/by-id/
- Step 11.8: renamed from 11.6, drive passthrough unchanged
- Step 11.10: VM 102 Windows 11 for Sync.com with dedicated NTFS drive
- Renumbered steps 11.9-11.13 to accommodate new steps
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
noVNC fails with 'Failed to run vncproxy' when Display is set to none and
no GPU is passed through yet — no virtual display exists to connect to.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Cores 8→12, add NUMA note for dual-socket E5-2660 v4
- Expand network table with VLAN Tag field and VirtIO note
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VMs with a passed-through GPU need Graphic card set to 'none' —
VirtIO-GPU conflicts with the real card. VMs without GPU keep
default VirtIO for console access. Add this to VM 100 and VM 101
System tab tables with explanatory notes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Coral handles Frigate detection; CPU decode is sufficient on dual Xeons.
GPU goes to VM 101 for Jellyfin/HandBrake/desktop use. Remove NVIDIA
driver install steps from Phase 12, renumber steps 12.2-12.14,
add notes on adding a second cheap GPU to VM 100 later if needed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Recommend passing optical drives by port rather than vendor/device ID
due to re-enumeration during disc spin-up. Include lsusb -t discovery
and /dev/sr0 note for MakeMKV/HandBrake in VM 101.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Covers passing any USB device to a VM by vendor/device ID or by port,
via both web UI and CLI, with notes on plug-in requirements and config management.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Correct point release from 24.04.1 to 24.04.4 throughout.
VM 101 changed from Ubuntu Server to Ubuntu Desktop 24.04.4
for a full GUI workstation environment via noVNC/RDP.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Step 9.4 was telling users to fill in VM config placeholders before
VMs were created. Replace with a note to record by-id paths for use
in Phase 11 Step 11.6 where drives are actually assigned via qm set.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
H730 requires two steps: enable JBOD on the controller, then set each
UGood drive to JBOD state. Without both, drives show in perccli but
are invisible to lsblk/the OS. Also skip Onln drives (OS RAID members).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace all prose mentions of 'Quadro P2200' with generic GPU language.
Sample command output blocks left as-is (they're illustrative, not prescriptive).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace stale Dell tar.gz URL and deb extraction method across
complete-walkthrough.md and walkthrough-phases-7-9.md with the
working method: curl with referer header to get RPM, convert with
alien, symlink binary into PATH.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
apt and direct Dell URLs don't work. Working method: curl with referer
header to get the RPM, convert with alien, symlink binary into PATH.
Update both setup-guide and perc-nonraid.sh error message to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Without cp stagger-spinup.service to /etc/systemd/system/ the enable
step fails with 'unit does not exist'. Also add missing chmod +x.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The hardcoded dl.dell.com tarball URL is stale and returns a redirect.
Suggest 'apt install perccli' first (available in Proxmox repos), then
fall back to manual .deb download via dell.com/support with service tag.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
BIOS.StorageSettings.HddSeq no longer exists on R730xd firmware 2.19+.
Update --idrac mode to print a clear explanation instead of failing,
and update docs to skip Layer 1 and go straight to the Linux systemd service.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fall through to /etc/default/grub + update-grub when /etc/kernel/cmdline
doesn't exist, instead of erroring out. Covers systems that booted via
legacy GRUB rather than the Proxmox EFI boot tool.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PVE9 uses .sources (DEB822 format) not .list files for enterprise repos.
Update distro codename from bookworm to trixie, add ceph-squid
no-subscription repo, and disable both .sources and .list variants
to cover all cases.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VT for Direct I/O toggle and Hard Disk Drive Sequencing were removed
from BIOS 2.19+; VT-d is enabled by default. Add dmesg verification
step and clarify C-states should be disabled. Remove outdated note
pointing users to a nonexistent menu option.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dell R730xd BIOS 2.19.0 renamed settings and reorganized menus:
- "VT for Direct I/O" → "Virtualization Technology for Direct I/O" (same page, scroll down)
- "Power Management" top-level category → "System Profile Settings"
- "Power Management Policy: Performance" → set System Profile to Custom, then CPU Power Management to Maximum Performance
- Add inline note so future readers know why the labels differ from older docs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Writes the missing Phase 11 (VM creation via Proxmox UI, GPU/Coral/disk
passthrough, Ubuntu install) and Phase 12 (NVIDIA driver, Docker, NVIDIA
Container Toolkit, ZFS pool, Frigate deploy) sections in the existing
walkthrough-phases-10-12.md, then assembles all 12 phases into a single
docs/complete-walkthrough.md with a table of contents and an expanded
troubleshooting section covering guest nvidia-smi failures and ZFS disk-full.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01Mfn4vyaz7wkaDKX7E1VnWc
Covers installing fan-control.sh + systemd service (replacing iDRAC's
100% fan response to non-Dell GPUs), configuring iDRAC BIOS hard disk
drive sequencing via racadm, and the Linux-layer stagger-spinup service
as a safety net. Phases 11 and 12 stubbed as placeholders.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01U7bSqj83VPbMZ9L8LTYa41
Summarises hardware, all repo files and their status, what still needs
to be written (walkthrough-phases-10-12.md and complete-walkthrough.md),
detailed notes on what phases 10-12 should cover, and key facts/gotchas
for whoever picks this up next.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01TxTSnxDjgEVuNztdsWQjMD
Phase 7 — H730 non-RAID conversion:
- perccli download with direct Dell URL and manual fallback
- Script output explained column by column (EID:Slt, State, Size)
- What JBOD vs UGood vs Onln states mean
- Post-reboot verification with lsblk
Phase 8 — Bay mapping:
- build-bay-map.sh output walkthrough
- Physical LED blink procedure (ledctl locate/locate_off per drive)
- Bay numbering convention on R730xd front panel
- How to fill in hardware-layout.md and VM config placeholders
Phase 9 — GPU passthrough:
- Pre-check: dmesg IOMMU confirmation, IOMMU group inspection
- Script output walkthrough step by step
- PCI address capture and immediate VM config update
- Post-reboot verification (must show vfio-pci not nouveau)
- Troubleshooting if wrong driver appears
https://claude.ai/code/session_01TxTSnxDjgEVuNztdsWQjMD
- Clarify iDRAC8 Express vs Enterprise with explicit feature table
- Remove incorrect claims (virtual console, virtual media) that require Enterprise
- Note physical monitor + keyboard required through Phase 5 (no remote KVM on Express)
- Confirm IPMI over LAN and racadm are available on Express (fan control and
stagger spinup scripts both work)
- Update "what you need" list to correctly state monitor is required until Phase 6
https://claude.ai/code/session_01TxTSnxDjgEVuNztdsWQjMD
Phase 4 — H730 RAID configuration:
- Lifecycle Controller navigation to RAID Configuration
- Identifying 2.5" OS drives vs 3.5" data drives by size
- Clearing foreign configurations if drives have prior RAID history
- Full VD creation wizard with every screen described
- Fast Initialize and verification
Phase 5 — Proxmox install:
- ISO download from proxmox.com
- USB creation for Windows (Rufus, DD mode), Mac (Etcher), Linux (dd)
- F11 UEFI boot menu navigation
- Every installer screen with what to type/select
- Certificate warning walkthrough, subscription nag explained
Phase 6 — Post-install:
- SSH connection
- Repo fix (enterprise → no-subscription community)
- apt dist-upgrade
- Tool installation with explanation of what each does
- Repo clone to /opt/local_proxmox
https://claude.ai/code/session_01TxTSnxDjgEVuNztdsWQjMD
Covers:
- What iDRAC is in plain English, and why no subscription is needed
- Phase 1: Firmware updates via Lifecycle Controller (F10), including
how to find the Service Tag and download firmware from Dell's site
if the server has no internet access
- Phase 2: iDRAC static IP, dedicated NIC port, IPMI over LAN enable,
default password change, browser login walkthrough
- Phase 3: Every required BIOS setting with exact menu paths —
VT-x, VT-d, SR-IOV, UEFI boot mode, HDD sequencing, C States
https://claude.ai/code/session_01TxTSnxDjgEVuNztdsWQjMD
12x 3.5" HDDs spinning up simultaneously can spike ~240W, pushing a single
750W PSU close to its limit. Two-layer fix:
- Layer 1: racadm iDRAC BIOS setting (HddSeq) fires at POST before OS loads
- Layer 2: stagger-spinup.service wakes drives one at a time via hdparm on boot
https://claude.ai/code/session_01TxTSnxDjgEVuNztdsWQjMD
- scripts/build-bay-map.sh: maps physical drive bays to /dev/disk/by-id paths
- scripts/gpu-passthrough-setup.sh: configures IOMMU + vfio-pci for two Quadro P2200s
- scripts/fan-control.sh: ipmitool daemon to prevent iDRAC from running fans at
100% due to non-Dell PCIe cards; adjusts speed by inlet temperature
- scripts/fan-control.service: systemd unit for fan-control.sh
https://claude.ai/code/session_01TxTSnxDjgEVuNztdsWQjMD
Initial structure for R730xd passthrough configuration:
- README with VM layout table and setup order
- docs/hardware-layout.md: bay/GPU/USB mapping worksheet
- scripts/perc-nonraid.sh: convert H730 drives to per-disk non-RAID mode
https://claude.ai/code/session_01TxTSnxDjgEVuNztdsWQjMD
Claude