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

Jun's image is already in raw format, so you do not need to convert it, but maybe you need to mount it (with kpartx and mount cmds in the linux) and change a grub.cfg file to correctly your server's MAC address. I posted version above: Last tested and worked for me is 6.2 update 2 with bootloader 1.03 (DS3617). https://mega.nz/#F!yQpw0YTI!DQqIzUCG2RbBtQ6YieScWg!OZw2QKwT During the first time boot you must install DSM with the option "Install manually", otherwise it will download