Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro

Proxmox, the company behind the open-source Proxmox virtualization stack, has announced the porting of its flagship Virtual Environment to the Arm CPU architecture. This collaboration with Nvidia and Supermicro allowed Proxmox to run on 64-bit Arm (arm64/aarch64) hardware, with best-effort support for other UEFI-based ARMv9-A or newer hardware and general compatibility with ARMv8-A.

However, Proxmox's software stack is currently incompatible with single-board Arm machines like the Raspberry Pi. The release aims to cater to organizations building modern, energy-efficient data centers, particularly those running AI workloads on edge devices. While Arm server adoption is growing in hyperscale clouds, fewer enterprise server vendors have entered the market, with notable exceptions being HPE and Supermicro.

Proxmox's Arm-compliant Virtual Environment version 9.2 is built on Debian 13.5 Trixie, Linux kernel 7.0, and includes QEMU 11.0, LXC 7.0, and ZFS 2.4.