Ayush Pande Provides Guidance on Turning a Raspberry Pi 5 Into a Proxmox Virtual Environment Host

Ayush Pande has written a guide to building a basic Proxmox Virtual Environment home lab server on a tight budget — by hosting it on a Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer (SBC), rather than the more traditional workstation or server hardware.

“Installing Proxmox on your old PC is a great way to build a home lab without shelling out money on new hardware. If you’re short on cash, used server rigs and budget-friendly mini-PCs make for solid home lab systems,” Pande writes. “But what about running on a cheap ARM system – like the Raspberry Pi? If you’re willing to spend some extra time setting everything up, it’s possible to get Proxmox up and running on these credit card-sized boards.”