To create this Proxmox VE Usb Stick (PVE_on_USB), you would need

The really cool thing is that not too difficult to load Proxmox VE on a USB stick. Here again, you could simply boot your machine from your magic PVE USB Stick, perform your tests and when it’s done, you can simply go back to your existing infrastructure… This would be cool huh ! You would like to keep the existing environment but still perform some tests with Proxmox VE. Other situation…You have already some computers configured with an operating system or with another Hypervisor like ESXi. However, you will not be able to test KVM virtual machines functionalities… A workaround would be to boot from a USB Stick on a capable hardware and perform some of these tests. With a virtual machine, you can perform quite a lot of test and get a grip on the product. (see this post to create hyper-v Proxmox VEVirtual machine). You can perform some tests by creating a virtual machine and loading the Proxmox VE software on it. Imagine you would like to test Proxmox VE but you do not have available hardware. I can see some situation where this approach would make sense.

Some people might be wondering why would you bother installing and booting Proxmox VE. follow the guide : -) Why ProxMox VE on a USB Guess what ? Yes, it’s possible to have a “portable” Proxmox VE environment on a USB stick. I was wondering if this would be an option with Proxmox VE. As you probably know, it’s possible to install and boot a system from usb stick when using software like VMware ESXi or Hyper-V. I’vn’t got much time to play around with Proxmox VE lately but still I managed to find some to experiment something.

Run virtualbox from thumb drive