Just a smol lil guide for myself to set up a minecraft server from scratch, as I cannot count the number of times I’ve had to re-learn this when I migrate from server to server.
I’ve opted for services that should (for the most part) be supported long-term and are relatively secure & lightweight. However, as any good netizen should do, please take my advice with a granule of sugar…
… & pulling files from an external SSD &/or an internal HDD. Yes, this was… interesting.
My primary objective was to setup a home lab, which could do the following things:
run LXCs of various linux distros (Kali via external install, and CentOS via Proxmox template) [done]
run a Plex Media server, accessing both external SSD and internal HDD data [done]
Setup a VPN for use in the server [done]
~ Using TP-Link TL-WN722N ~
The GUI way of adding a USB device to a Proxmox VM didn’t work for me when using a USB network adapter (the device id was not showing up when trying to add to the VM via the GUI), so here is a simple manual workaround.
Plug in your desired USB device into the physical machine you’re running Proxmox on.
Using the CLI on the Proxmox host machine (recommended to use ssh/webGUI CLI), list all connected USB devices with lsusb:
