19 Aug 2026 8 min read Proxmox now runs on Arm. Your x86 machines don't. On 5 August Proxmox shipped its first official arm64 edition. The headline says there is now a second architecture; the release notes say guests only run on nodes matching their architecture and that live migration only works between equals. What was actually announced, for which hardware, why Windows Server is left out, and why none of this changes your VMware exit plan.
6 Aug 2026 8 min read Proxmox on Arm doesn't extend your cluster — it makes you run two On 5 August Proxmox shipped the first officially supported edition of Proxmox VE 9.2 for arm64: same codebase, same repositories, same lifecycle and feature parity with x86-64. Buried in the announcement there is one sentence that decides how you design your infrastructure: guests only run on nodes matching their architecture, and live migration only works between nodes of the same architecture. What they actually shipped, what you give up crossing to Arm, why the Raspberry Pi is left out, and the five questions we ask before quoting an Arm node.