Debian 12 VM on Proxmox

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How to quickly set up a Debian 12 VM on Proxmox 8 using helper scripts.

Resources

• helper-scripts.com Scripts
• helper-scripts.com Userguides
• helper-scripts.com Debian12 script
• helper-scripts.com Debian12 post-installation steps

Installation steps

1. Open your Proxmox node’s Shell and run

bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/main/vm/debian-vm.sh)"

2. Configure settings to your liking
   1. (optional) Don’t enable “Start after created” at the end.
   2. (optional) By default “RAM → Balooning Device” is enabled, disable it under “VM → Hardware → Memory (Advanced)“.
   3. Start VM.
3. Follow the desired post-installation steps
4. Set your timezone (inside the VM) with

timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Berlin

5. Install quemu-guest-agent with

apt-get update && apt-get install -y qemu-guest-agent

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Default settings

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Using Default Settings
Using Virtual Machine ID: 100
Using Machine Type: i440fx
Using Disk Cache: None
Using Hostname: debian
Using CPU Model: KVM64
Allocated Cores: 2
Allocated RAM: 2048
Using Bridge: vmbr0
Using MAC Address: 02:25:83:B4:2A:87
Using VLAN: Default
Using Interface MTU Size: Default
Start VM when completed: yes
Creating a Debian 12 VM using the above default settings
 ✓ Using local-lvm for Storage Location.
 ✓ Virtual Machine ID is 100.
 ✓ https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/bookworm/20231228-1609/debian-12-nocloud-amd64-20231228-1609.qcow2
 ✓ Downloaded debian-12-nocloud-amd64-20231228-1609.qcow2
 ✓ Created a Debian 12 VM (debian)
 ✓ Started Debian 12 VM
 ✓ Completed Successfully!
 
More Info at https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/discussions/1988

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