Proxmox
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Frustrating to use, but far better than most alternatives.

Proxmox Interfaces
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   # network interface settings; autogenerated
   # Please do NOT modify this file directly, unless you know what
   # you're doing.
   #
   # If you want to manage part of the network configuration manually,
   # please utilize the 'source' or 'source-directory' directives to do
   # so.
   # PVE will preserve these directives, but will NOT its network
   # configuration from sourced files, so do not attempt to move any of
   # the PVE managed interfaces into external files!

   source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

   auto lo
   iface lo inet loopback

   allow-hotplug eth2

   auto eth2
   iface eth2 inet static
       address  10.x.x.x
       netmask  255.255.255.0
       gateway  10.x.x.1
       broadcast  10.x.x.255
       network 10.x.x.0
       dns-nameservers 10.x.x.x
       dns-search lustfield.net
   # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed

   iface eth0 inet manual

   iface eth1 inet manual

   auto bond0
   iface bond0 inet manual
       slaves eth0 eth1
       bond_miimon 100
       bond_mode 802.3ad
       bond_xmit_hash_policy layer3+4

   auto vmbr0
   iface vmbr0 inet manual
       bridge_ports bond0
       bridge_stp off
       bridge_fd 0
       bridge_vlan_aware yes

Image Creation
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   Download from http://download.proxmox.com/images/system/

   Extract archive into dir, mount stuff, chroot.
   echo 'nameserver 10.41.7.1' >/etc/resolv.conf

   cat >/etc/apt/sources.list <<EOF
   deb http://apt.lustfield.net/debian stretch main contrib
   deb http://apt.lustfield.net/debsec stretch/updates main contrib
   deb http://apt.lustfield.net/debian stretch-updates main contrib
   EOF

   cat >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/saltstack.list <<EOF
   deb http://apt.lustfield.net/sltstk9 stretch main
   EOF

   apt-get install dirmngr # apparently required for the following line
   apt-key apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 0E08A149DE57BFBE

   apt-get update
   apt-get upgrade
   apt-get install sysvinit-core salt-minion vim
   apt-get purge xbase-clients debconf-i18n nano postfix postfix-sqlite reportbug systemd \
       systemd-sysv tasksel-data tasksel telnet traceroute vim-tiny wamerican x11-apps \
       x11-common x11-session-utils x11-utils x11-xkb-utils x11-xserver-utils xauth xinit

   apt-get autoremove
   apt-get clean

   echo '' >/etc/resolv.conf

   service salt-minion stop
   killall dirmgr
   exit
   umount d/*

   # make sure no files are still being held open
   rm root/.bash_history

   root@arctic:/home/michael/downloads/d# tar czf ../debian-9-lustfield_amd64.tar.gz *