Install Guide for Turnkey VMs in Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts

[havardthom]

This guide will explain how to fully install a Turnkey VM using Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts. These VMs comes with a Turnkey ISO image bootdisk and requires some extra installation steps to get the VM fully up and running.

• Start by installing a Turnkey VM using Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts. In this example I'll be installing a Turnkey Nextcloud VM:
  bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/raw/main/vm/nextcloud-vm.sh)"
  • The VM is created with two disks by default:
    • scsi0 - OS disk
    • scsi1 - Turnkey ISO image disk

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(Optional) Before booting, resize the OS disk (scsi0) to your liking, since it will be partitioned on first boot

Start the VM (boots from Turnkey ISO image disk by default)

Partition the OS disk (this will also install the OS)

Install GRUB boot loader on OS disk

Stop the VM when installation is complete

Change VM boot order to boot from OS disk first

Start the VM and follow setup steps. Important: Domain must be set to the IP address of the VM

Your Turnkey Nextcloud VM is up and running, congrats!

[Bob-Tek]

CAn anyone mention how this is better than the container script?

[pfeiffr]

Overall higher security, especially if exposed, by having higher isolation from the host system compared to the LXC container.

[Levtos]

Hello @havardthom,

First of all, thank you for providing the Proxmox VE Nextcloud VM script—it’s been very helpful! However, I’ve encountered an issue during the setup process that prevents me from using the server after installation.

It seems that the script defaults to a US keyboard layout during the initial setup. After installation, the keyboard layout switches to the system’s default (e.g., German in my case). This causes problems when special characters like @, =, or \ are used in the password during configuration. These characters are mapped differently in other layouts, and as a result, the password becomes unusable post-installation, making it impossible to log in to the server.

Here are the details of my setup:

Environment: TurnKey Linux (from your provided script)
Keyboard layout: German (system default post-installation)
Problem: Password mismatch due to the initial setup defaulting to a US keyboard layout.

To resolve this issue, I suggest one of the following solutions:

Add a prompt during the installation process to allow users to select their preferred keyboard layout before entering sensitive data like passwords.
Set a default password (e.g., admin or changeme) during installation, with instructions to change it after the setup is complete.

Either of these changes would ensure users can log in to the server after installation without running into this issue.

Thank you for your time and support! Please let me know if you need any further details to address this.

Best regards,

[hdortim]

This works for me:

• Change the keyboard layout to US temporarly
• enter the password in an editor with the german keys on the changed keyboard layout
• note down the password with the changed characters
• and try it to login

[FriedrichVanWel]

The installation is failing when trying to install GRUB.

• proxmox-ve: 8.2.0
• 4 x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500T CPU @ 2.50GHz (1 Socket)
• Linux 6.8.8-2-pve (2024-06-24T09:00Z)

[havardthom]

Make sure you are targeting the OS disk which is partitioned, it will fail if it tries to install GRUB on the ISO image disk. On Install GRUB boot loader on OS disk step you can also select no option and then manually select which disk, e.g. sda or sdb depending on which is your partitioned OS disk.

[FriedrichVanWel]

Thank you havardthom. I was able to pick the correct disk, and everything worked fine from there.

[eagle275]

That is a dumb screen ...
when I select "no" .. I expect to stop installation of grub.. not give me manual control.. instead the stupid installer should "know" that the drive it just installed every other component onto is the one for the grub installer as well ..
I tried to manually do it from the "live cd" but then i get more errors ..

And even after manually getting grub installed correctly (at least according to the installer) .. it doesnt work

Booting from Hard Disk...
Grub loading...
Welcome to Grub!

error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0' .

What do I enter now?

[Praaug]

Hey @havardthom ,

thank you for the detailed installation instrcutions.
I have the problem, that I can't login with the admin or adminer users in nextcloud itself, the webmin or the db login. The root login for the terminal is working.

I have reinstalled mutiple times, also with setting up very easy passwords, that are not subject to the different keyboard layouts like 1234Something but I always get the error message, that username or password are wrong.

I also tried to reset the admin password through the terminal, but there I get the message that occ is only allowed with the user that created it, www-data. sudo and su are not working as sudo is not installed.

Does anyone have any idea, where I did something wrong, or what I can do to be able to login and finish the setup?

[markrgriffin]

I am in the same situation, install ok and can log in as root to the terminal, however I cannot get past the webpage login or webmin or Adminer. Anyone got a solution for this?

[kpatient]

I had this issue and was due to shift key not being passed through VM. So every password character I thought was uppercase was actually lowercase.

As others have mentioned there might also be other subtle differences either due to the img's default keyboard layout and how keyboard inputs are passed through the console.

[iukbox]

Using Advanced Settings
Virtual Machine ID: 101
Using Machine Type: i440fx
Using Disk Cache: None
Using Hostname: turnkey-nextcloud-vm
Using CPU Model: KVM64
Allocated Cores: 2
Allocated RAM: 2048
Using Bridge: vmbr0
Using MAC Address: 02:CD:45:8E:EA:41
Using Vlan: Default
Using Interface MTU Size: Default
Start VM when completed: yes
Creating a TurnKey Nexcloud VM using the above advanced settings
✓ Using local-lvm for Storage Location.
✓ Virtual Machine ID is 101.
✓ http://mirror.turnkeylinux.org/turnkeylinux/images/iso/turnkey-nextcloud-18.0-bookworm-amd64.iso
✓ Downloaded turnkey-nextcloud-18.0-bookworm-amd64.iso

• Creating a TurnKey Nexcloud VM...
  [ERROR] in line 405: exit code 5: while executing command pvesm alloc $STORAGE $VMID $DISK0 4M >&/dev/null

[kotovasia5120]

I didn't have the numbers of containers and disks for them. I manually assigned another container number with an unoccupied disk number.

[zientas]

I installed it and everything started up nicely, but I have questions:

1. how to add face recognition models, occ commands don't work
2. is it possible to copy photos from the shell level to nestcloud directories and have it recognize them? I have a few thousand photos and adding them via the browser is tiring. When I copied a few photos from the shell level, nextcloud doesn't see them.

[Gorkovets]

Я установил его, и все заработало хорошо, но у меня есть вопросы:

1. как добавить модели распознавания лиц, команды occ не работают
2. можно ли копировать фотографии с уровня оболочки в каталоги nestcloud и распознавать их? У меня несколько тысяч фотографий, и добавлять их через браузер утомительно. Когда я скопировал несколько фотографий с уровня оболочки, nextcloud их не видит.

buddy Use this command => turnkey-occ recognize:download-models

[MikeAnita]

Hello,

I installed the VM successfully and got to the login page.
What are the login details here?

[Gorkovets]

Only Alpine: To get the username and password, run the script again inside the LXC shell.

[Node815]

For the VM, use this command and it will allow you to reset the password for the admin account:

sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ user:resetpassword admin

NOTE: you most likely won't have sudo installed so you will need to run that. I ran into this error upon a fresh install.

[dizir71]

hello,
i told me sudo not installed, how to run the script to reset the admin password, i have a fresh install, can access the admin in the shell but no access to the admin on the website, nor can i access the database, first i thought it was the keyboard (german) but the i did not use any other characters then english and number, still access denied. can you tell me what is wrong or how can i run that script ? with runuser maybe? thank you or you can tell me to run "sudo command" or install it?

[S-lax]

Hi,
I also had the issue. Turns out the passwords were set (by me) in english keyboard layout.

You can login with the set nextcloud admin pw.

[ttrueten]

You can use the occ App to run commands.

hello, i told me sudo not installed, how to run the script to reset the admin password, i have a fresh install, can access the admin in the shell but no access to the admin on the website, nor can i access the database, first i thought it was the keyboard (german) but the i did not use any other characters then english and number, still access denied. can you tell me what is wrong or how can i run that script ? with runuser maybe? thank you or you can tell me to run "sudo command" or install it?

[JRLEMOYNE]

Hi, thanks for the easy setup guide. Can I add my NFS share from my NAS to the VM so it stores the files there? Tried to find some informations on how to do it but didn't find anything helpful, so if anyone can help me that would be greatly appreciated!

[nanohits]

Same here I have TrueNAS scale but not sure how to add that as a storage device?

[SpacemannFinn]

Did you ever figure out how to do this?

[JRLEMOYNE]

No, didn't have much time to search for answers. Still hope someone can help. I'll make sure to post the solution here if I find it.

[SpacemannFinn]

Aww that sucks. I am trying to solve this issue with a ZFS pool I made in proxmox

[wtangofoxtrot]

I think the solution you want is:

1. Make your nextcloud dataset in truenas accessible via a nfs share
2. In the VM mount that NFS share locally over the directory where nextcloud stores its data and then add it to /etc/fstab so it retains the share on reboot.

[emircanerkul]

Turnkey only allow me to download at 50kbps. Also it is version 18. What year they living on? Currently v31 released

[WH4MGMT]

can you remove the extra hardisk used for install?

[LeChat109]

yes you can, as soon as you finished the installation process

[dualizeo]

Wouldn't the AIO Edition be more efficient AND better? ( All in One ) Even NextCloud officially uses that https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one

[davemenkehorst]

I miss Borg backup and other solutions. Is the All in One version better?

[jolypas]

Hello
Any way to change keyboard layout during installation (complicate for all passwords setup with wrong keyboard) ?

[steve41200]

Anyone who how join this VM via reverse proxy ? (NginxProxy Manager) ?
I joint all of my virtual machine except here (too many requests) if I join 80 in Http or 443 in https

[writzthecat]

Having the some Problem. Even if i change for the thrusted proxies it's not going to work :;(

[Wajalot]

Anyone who how join this VM via reverse proxy ? (NginxProxy Manager) ? I joint all of my virtual machine except here (too many requests) if I join 80 in Http or 443 in https

Maybe is late, but to others. This worked for me.

Assuming ports 80 and 443 are targeting to the NginX Proxy Manager, I modified both /etc/apache2/ports.conf and /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/nextcloud.conf changing 8080 and 8443 instead 80 and 443 respectively, then I restarted apache2 and set those ports in NginX Proxy Manager. Actually just the 8443, with Lets encrypt certificated generated and linked and forcing https. Also the host with https.

[s-a-kuehl]

Thank you Wajalot, this worked for me as well and saved me a lot of trouble!

[pvd276]

not working with hardisk over 2TB

[Wajalot]

I installed Nextcloud following the guide, however I added a disk with more than 2TB mounted in /var/... for data storing.