Tutorial: DSM 6.x on Proxmox

After fiddling with it for a day, and getting it to work, I thought it would be nice to share the knowledge, especially since "officially" only ESXi is supported, and ESXi is picky about supporting stuff... The main reason for me to move to a hypervisor was because Synology has not yet introduced NVMe support AT ALL. And even with a kernel driver, the Storage Manager will not see it as an SSD, as an HDD, or anything. Synology is silent about this, even though some have requested it o

My config example (Disclaimer: I need to see serial numbers in the DSM storage manager - so I found that only SATA bus can provide correct disk info for DSM, so I use scsi0 for Synology OS (vm-108-disk-1.raw) installing and bootloader via USB (vm-108-disk-0.raw), bcs QEMU support six SATA disks only. If you do not care about hard disk serial info - you can use SCSI bus for all, or SATA for all if you have less then six disks to use). args: -device ich9-usb-ehci1,id=usb,