Installing PxVirt from openEuler

PxVirt supports installation on RHEL-family systems, built on top of openEuler 24.03. This also supports newer server operating systems such as Kylin V11 and Kylin Xin'an 9.

System preparation

Disable SELinux

echo "SELINUX=disabled" > /etc/selinux/config

Enable AppArmor

vi /etc/default/grub

On the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line, change apparmor=0 to apparmor=1.

Then update grub:

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/openEuler/grub.cfg

After that, you can reboot and verify — AppArmor should show as enabled (apparmor=1) below:

[root@pxvirt ~]# cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.6.0-132.0.0.111.oe2403sp3.aarch64 root=/dev/mapper/openeuler-root ro rd.lvm.lv=openeuler/root rd.lvm.lv=openeuler/swap cgroup_disable=files apparmor=1 crashkernel=1024M,high smmu.bypassdev=0x1000:0x17 smmu.bypassdev=0x1000:0x15 arm64.nopauth nospectre_bhb console=tty0
[root@pxvirt ~]#

SELinux should be disabled:

[root@pxvirt ~]# getenforce
Disabled
[root@pxvirt ~]#

Disable the firewall

systemctl stop firewalld
systemctl disable firewalld

Set the hostname

Proxmox VE services rely on the hostname to resolve the IP address, so you need to configure the correct hostname.

Assume your current IP is 10.10.10.10 and the hostname is pxvirt.

Edit the /etc/hosts file:

# For historical reasons, localhost precedes localhost.localdomain:
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
# See hosts(5) for proper format and other examples:
# 192.168.1.10 foo.example.org foo
# 192.168.1.13 bar.example.org bar
10.10.10.10 pxvirt.local pxvirt

Install PxVirt

Configure the PxVirt package repository

sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/pxvirt.repo > /dev/null <<'EOF'
[pxvirt]
name=Lierfang PxVirt Repo
baseurl=https://mirrors.lierfang.com/pxcloud/pxvirt/repo/openeuler/24.03/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://mirrors.lierfang.com/pxcloud/lierfang.gpg
EOF

Please replace username and password with the account credentials we provided you.

Install PxVirt

Run:

dnf makecache
dnf install pxvirt libknet1-crypto-nss-plugin ceph -y

You should see output like this:

[root@pxvirt ~]# dnf makecache
OS                                                                                  3.4 kB/s | 1.6 kB     00:00
everything                                                                          3.6 kB/s | 1.7 kB     00:00
EPOL                                                                                3.9 kB/s | 1.8 kB     00:00
debuginfo                                                                           3.5 kB/s | 1.7 kB     00:00
source                                                                              3.5 kB/s | 1.6 kB     00:00
update                                                                              4.8 kB/s | 2.2 kB     00:00
update-source                                                                       3.5 kB/s | 1.6 kB     00:00
Lierfang PxVirt Repo                                                                690 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.
[root@pxvirt ~]# dnf install pxvirt
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:06 ago on 2026年06月01日 星期一 09时06分08秒.
Dependencies resolved.
====================================================================================================================
 Package                            Architecture   Version                                  Repository         Size
====================================================================================================================
Installing:
 proxmox-ve                         noarch         8.4.1-1                                  pxvirt            6.7 k
Installing dependencies:
 CUnit                              aarch64        2.1.3-25.oe2403sp3                       OS                 88 k
 SDL                                aarch64        1.2.15-42.oe2403sp3                      OS                127 k
 abseil-cpp                         aarch64        20230802.1-6.oe2403sp3                   OS                479 k
 alsa-lib                           aarch64        1.2.10-4.oe2403sp3                       update            433 k
 babeltrace                         aarch64        1.5.11-2.oe2403sp3                       OS                194 k
 bcache-tools                       aarch64        1.1-4.oe2403sp3                          everything         44 k
 bridge-utils                       aarch64        1.7.1-4.oe2403sp3                        OS                 30 k
 cdparanoia-libs                    aarch64        10.2-32.oe2403sp3                        OS                 44 k
 ceph-common                        aarch64        2:18.2.2-11.oe2403sp3                    update             18 M
 ceph-fuse                          aarch64        2:18.2.2-11.oe2403sp3                    update            720 k
 cifs-utils                         aarch64        7.0-5.oe2403sp3                          OS                 68 k
 cmake-filesystem                   aarch64        3.27.9-8.oe2403sp3                       OS                8.0 k
 corosync                           aarch64        3.1.10-1.pve2                            pxvirt            261 k
 corosynclib                        aarch64        3.1.10-1.pve2                            pxvirt             43 k
 cstream                            aarch64        4.0.0-1                                  pxvirt             31 k
 dtach                              aarch64        0.9-1                                    pxvirt             24 k
 dtc                                aarch64        1.7.2-3.oe2403sp3                        OS                101 k
 ebtables                           aarch64        2.0.11-13.oe2403sp3                      OS                 77 k
 emacs-filesystem                   noarch         1:29.1-8.oe2403sp3                       update            3.5 k
 extjs                              noarch         7.0.0-5                                  pxvirt            3.4 M
 fmt                                aarch64        8.1.1-1.oe2403sp3                        OS                 97 k
 fonts-font-awesome                 noarch         4.7.0-1

Configure the bridge network

Before changing the network configuration, make sure you have IPMI access or a monitor connected to the physical machine.

Now configure the network in the Web UI and click Apply.

Disable NetworkManager

PVE uses ifupdown2 for network configuration. RHEL-family systems typically install NetworkManager by default, so we need to disable that service.

systemctl disable NetworkManager
systemctl stop NetworkManager

Then reboot the host!