(The NICs are fully supported in PROXMOX though, if that’s your thing). I ran PROXMOX on it for a bit and it worked perfectly fine too.
If this machine had dual Intel NICs it would friggin amazing.
USB NIC (to use with USB Fling drivers): USB-C TP-LINK Gigabit Ethernet Adapter - RTL8153 0x2357 0x0601
To Note: The front USB-C port is USB 2.0. This will affect transfer speeds via the USB-C TP-Link NIC, in order to workaround this, you can put the USB NIC on the rear of the machine with a USB A to USB-C adapter: (or just buy the USB-A version of the adapter).
You cannot pass through the Radeon Graphics, although I only spent about 5 minutes on this so it may work with some more effort. This might work in 7.0.3 but since it’s pulled I cannot test it.
After install you can pass through the REALTEK NICs without issues.
I’ve already done the work and created the ISO for people here because I know integrating the USB driver is a HUGE pain in the ass:
Just write the ISO to a USB drive with Rufus.
Just a normal install from USB. Works perfectly. I installed it onto an SD Card in a USB Adapter in the other USB 3.0 port.
If you get “No network cards detected” or similar when installing, just reboot and try again. Sometimes the timing is a bit off and it does not detect the NIC during install. I’ve only had this happen once though.
I realize you posted this a while back, and thank you for contributing the ESX content. You mentioned that you had Proxmox working on it with no issues. Any thoughts as to whether the current RZBox highest end models would fair with Proxmox 6 or 7? And any issues when you had Proxmox running on it?
Proxmox has a ton of hardware support. I would assume it would work totally fine. I moved on from this RZBox due to the numerous issues it had with locking up and random reboots.
I have Proxmox running now with an AMD Ryzen 3900X, and Gigabyte X570 Aero G motherboard with no issues.
I doubt you’ll run into any issues honestly. Even with this high en X570 board, everything worked out of the box (except WiFi which I’ll never use on it).
The only real way of knowing if it works though is actually installing it, then once up and running, adding the testing repo/no-subscription repo for the latest updates, doing the updates and then spinning up some VMs.
Side note to this, VMWare ESXI 8.0 has issues with TPM support. Proxmox TPM support works flawlessy.
Actually i can confirm that Proxmox 8 works great.I’ve also used the wifi m2 slot to use a coral AI board to empower my projects. No issues since so far.
Just a hint: change the thermal paste with a better thetmal compound. The fan system for the rzbox is the worst.
