Insights on Proxmox

Proxmox and free software

These pages originally started with a single snippet post in a reaction to censorship on the official channels - of a piece of code authored by Proxmox themselves:

-			    title: gettext('No valid subscription'),
-			    icon: Ext.Msg.WARNING,

This was despite the free license having been chosen for the product itself.

The fundamental right

It was not only meant to alleviate the terrible UX with the infamous “nag” popup, but also bring awareness of:

the meaning of “free” in “free software” that a user has legitimately obtained under the AGPL license:

the freedom to modify a piece of software, amongst others.

As for the other meaning of “free”, please consider that as a non-commercial user, you already support Proxmox by running off the no-subscription repository, a pre-production environment where any bugs you help identify early offload their own Quality Assurance workload. This also helps to keep the product free of charge.

Here be dragons

After having been later also “excluded” from all official channels of Proxmox, this has now turned out into a stash of notes and observations after a year-long experience, some of which you might find useful:

Insights

Assorted posts on under-the-hood aspects of user-level-only documented features.

Guides

Collection of instructables, some of which aspire to be full-fledged walkthroughs.