On Proxmox free software

Welcome to the next place! The original free-pmx.pages.dev now redirects to free-pmx.org (here) - the new home of non-affiliated bastion of truly free and open source resources for your Proxmox deployments.

No-subscription setup tool for Proxmox VE/BS/MG

No more post-install chores. Sets up no-subscription repositories, removes the marketing-laden warnings as well as the pesky “No valid subscription” notice, also dubbed as a nag. Enjoy the freedom of free software.

Tip

If you have updated PVE to v8.4.2+ or PBS to v3.4.3+, it is necessary to update the tool now to keep the nag removal in effect going forward. The most recent version also supports PVE 9 and PBS 4.

free-pmx-no-subscription tool - download and install

v0.3 as of Aug 15, 2025

Proxmox and free software

These pages once started with a single snippet post on NO subscription notice removal in a reaction to censorship of the official channels. This was despite the supposedly free license having been chosen for the product itself - Proxmox VE can be legitimately obtained by any user under the AGPL license - a choice Proxmox have made themselves.

The original post - alongside all the others - are now here to bring up the awareness of the meaning of “free” in “free software” - the freedom to modify a piece of software, amongst others.

As for the other meaning of “free”, please consider that as a non-commercial user, you already support Proxmox by running off the no-subscription repository, a pre-production environment where any bugs you help identify early offload their own Quality Assurance workload. This way, you also help Proxmox keep their suite free of charge.

Insights and guides

The site has now turned out to live on as a stash of notes and observations, some of which you might find useful:

Insights

Assorted posts on under-the-hood aspects of user-level-only documented features.

Guides

Collection of instructables, some of which aspire to be full-fledged walkthroughs.