{"id":585,"date":"2018-05-13T20:47:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T03:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diyfuturism.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2018-05-13T20:47:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T03:47:33","slug":"installing-volumio-proxmox-virtual-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyfuturism.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/13\/installing-volumio-proxmox-virtual-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Volumio in a Proxmox Virtual Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Volumio<\/a> is a really cool open source audio player project, meant for high quality playback and easy use with cheap devices. Basically, a plug-and-play network music appliance. I have a few already around the house – a Pi Zero W in the kitchen for streaming radio, a Pi 3<\/a> with nice DAC hooked up to the stereo for lossless file playing. At it’s base it is controllable by the standard mpd server<\/a>, which allows it to be integrated into other audio solutions or controlled by software like Home Assistant.<\/p>\n

I wanted to add a network controllable speaker to my NUC server, and it made sense to stick with Volumio. Here’s the steps for installing in a Proxmox<\/a> virtual machine.<\/p>\n

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THE PROBLEM<\/h2>\n

One annoying thing I have run into is that Proxmox only allows ISOs to be used as installation media. But for some projects meant for embedded devices – like OpenWRT<\/a> or Volumio<\/a> – only an IMG file is provided.<\/p>\n

So even though Volumio supports Intel x86 devices, I couldn’t figure out a way to install it’s IMG file with Proxmox until I found Giles Orr’s netcat method<\/a>. Many thanks to him for detailing this previously unknown to me Linux tool.<\/p>\n