[pve-devel] Installer eMMC support contribution

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On August 5, 2025 8:23 am, Ilya Gulya wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Currently Proxmox VE installer lacks support for installing on eMMC 
> (/dev/mmcblk).
> 
> Users have to manually patch the installer code to make this happen:
> 
> https://ibug.io/blog/2022/03/install-proxmox-ve-emmc/
> 
> I would like to contribute this to the Proxmox installer so that this no 
> longer required to be done by end users.
> 
> Is it okay and what is the proper way to contribute?

in the past, we've been a bit wary about supporting such devices because
PVE is quite write intensive on /, and many such devices quickly wear
out and fail..

I think there are more stable eMMC options around nowadays, so maybe we
could include such a patch if it also adds a warning that this might be
dangerous depending on the concrete hardware that is used?

in general, you can find information on how to contribute patches to any
of our projects here:

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Documentation

in particular, the CLA part at the bottom is an important pre-requisite!

thanks,
Fabian