1.0 Installation

Materials / Pre-Setup 

 

 Download Tailscale and make an account on user’s system 

 Create new Ubuntu Server VM on the Proxmox server  (Refer to Create a VM in How to: Proxmox) 

 

 

 VM Customization Options 

 Some "conventions" are only applicable to the Proxmox server at the Raspberry Pi Club - disregard "General Settings" if you're in a home lab environment unless specifically  highlighted as an important feature 

 

 General Settings (Check advanced) 

 

 Click Start at boot 

 Node: pve 

 Resource Pool: Personal  

 VM ID: # (any number unless following a certain convention) 

 Name: [USER]-tailnet (e.g. pat-tailnet) 

 Tags: tailnet, [USER]  

 

 

 

 

 

 OS Settings 

 

 

 

 

 ISO Image: ubuntu-24.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 System Settings 

 

 

 Check off qemu-guest-agent 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Disks Settings 

 

 

 

 Disk Size (GiB): 16 

 

 

 

 

 

 CPU Settings 

 

 

 Sockets: 1 

 

 

 Cores: 1 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Memory Settings 

 

 

 Memory (MiB): 1024-2048 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Network Settings 

 

 

 Bridge: vmbr0 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Confirm 

 

 

 

 

 Start after created 

 

 

 Finish 

 

 

 

 

 

 During the OS install: 

 

 Use DHCP 

 Install OpenSSH server and add user’s Github SSH key 

 

 

 

 

 Last Updated: 2/22/2025 Contributors: Lilian, Vivian