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Pretty clever to boot a virtual QEMU VM and pass through the physical disks for installation. Nice that it can be done without a support request.

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Did the same to install Proxmox. Pretty straightforward though I probably wouldn't have thought of it myself had I not read about it.

Struggling right now setting up various qemu on a hetzner, specifically with IPv6 on bridges etc. I used to have Proxmox servers for work before but never had to worry about networking.

Any issues or recommendations considering the Proxmox route? You do port forwarding or multiple ipv4?

Thanks for putting this idea in my head!

I use Proxmox on Hetzner for a few of my toy VMs, I just rented a few extra IP addresses.

I also have an instance of PFSense running and any VMs that don't need a full IP address to themselves can just be port forwarded through the firewall.

I know you can do this with iptables but I am too lazy to learn how it works.

I once did similar black magic to have a dual-OS set up (Linux & Windows) where the _same_ Linux OS can be either booted into or ran in a VirtualBox VM from within Windows. I probably spent more time reading about it & getting it to work than I ever actually used the OS, but it was a fun learning experience.

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