Quick installation
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Introduction
This is a quick install guide for Proxmox VE.
- For installing from scratch or updating versions (e.g. 3.0 to 3.1) see Downloads page of wiki
- For upgrading 1.9 to 2.0, see Upgrade_from_1.9_to_2.0
- For upgrading 2.3 to 3.0, see Upgrade_from_2.3_to_3.0
Additionally, we also provide a "howto" for installation on an Debian 6 Squeeze or Debian 7 Wheesy or Debian 8 Jessie
Get the ISO
Download the ISO image and move it to a USB media, see Install from USB Stick. Or just burn a CD.
Minimum requirements, for evaluation
- CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64), Intel VT/AMD-V capable CPU/Mainboard (for KVM Full Virtualization support)
- RAM: 1 GB RAM
- Hard drive
- One NIC
Start the installation
- Just press 'Enter' to start the installation (for custom partition settings, see Debugging Installation#Boot options)
- The installer supports partitions greater 2 TB (using GUID Partition Table, GPT)
Update your Proxmox VE Server to latest available version
In order to get new features and all security updates and bugfixes you should always update a new ISO install to the latest available packages via GUI updater or via CLI (apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade)
For more details about our update services, see Package repositories