pve-devuan-appliances

Devuan Virtual Appliances for Proxmox Virtual Environment (LXC containers).

Supporting versions

Proxmox supports Devuan starting from Proxmox VE v5.1 (released 24.10.2017).

• Devuan 1 Jessie (based on Debian 8)
• Devuan 2.1 ASCII (based on Debian 9 Stretch / 2017-06)
• Devuan 3 Beowulf (based on Debian 10 Buster / 2019-07)
• Devuan 4 Chimaera (based on Debian 11 Bullseye / 2021-11)

See git repository dab-pve-appliances for current DAB templates.

Usage

Preparation

Install dab (Debian appliance builder) tool:

sudo apt install dab

Support for Devuan testing

Manually edit /usr/share/perl5/PVE/LXC/Setup/Devuan.pm:

--- /usr/share/perl5/PVE/LXC/Setup/Devuan.pm.ORIG	2022-05-04 08:36:45.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/share/perl5/PVE/LXC/Setup/Devuan.pm	2022-06-19 21:36:59.039446517 +0200
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 	'beowulf/ceres' => 10,
 	'chimaera' => 11, # Devuan 4.0
 	'chimaera/ceres' => 11,
+	'daedalus' => 12, # Devuan 5.0
+	'daedalus/ceres' => 12,
     };
     die "unsupported Devuan version '$version'\n" if !exists($version_map->{$version});

Build Devuan template

Example:

git clone 'https://github.com/vazhnov/proxmox-devuan-containers.git'
cd devuan-4.0-minimal-64
sudo make

Rename file before moving into template directory:

mv -v 'devuan-4.0-minimal_1.0_amd64.tar.gz' "devuan-4.0-minimal_$(date +%F)_amd64.tar.gz"

Then move the tar.gz into proxmox template directory, for example:

sudo mv -v -- devuan-*_amd64.tar.gz '/var/lib/vz/template/cache/'

Then do some cleanup:

sudo make clean

References

Sources

• dab-pve-appliances — git repository with current DAB templates;
• https://gitlab.com/vazhnov/proxmox-devuan-containers — this repository at GitHub;
• https://github.com/vazhnov/proxmox-devuan-containers — this repository at GitLab;
• https://github.com/siddolo/pve-devuan-appliances — original repository;

Documentation

• https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Debian_Appliance_Builder — how to build your own application appliances;

Proxmox bugzilla requests

• Support for Devuan LXC container — original bugreport from Pasquale Fiorillo to support Devuan 1.0;
• Support for LXC containers Devuan 2, 3 (and maybe 4) — support Devuan 2, 3, 4;
• Support for LXC containers Devuan 5 — next bugreport to support upcoming Devuan 5;

See also

• https://gitea.devuan.org/devuan/lxc-templates — archived. Last update was in 2020.
• https://github.com/gregoryolsen/lxc-devuan — too old: last update was in 2016.
• https://gitlab.com/vazhnov/devuan-debootstrap-grub-efi — install Devuan with debootstrap, configure EFI.