Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Proxmox adds a lot of complexity and a nice GUI. If you are fine with using the terminal, there is really not much benefit from Proxmox and the potential issues from the added complexity are IMHO not worth it. I am not a Proxmox expert though, so take this advise with a grain of salt 😅
pineapple@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Is it decently easy to create and manage vm’s and containers with the terminal? I use proxmox at the moment. Should I switch to Ubuntu server?
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
Thats a hard no IMO.
Even if you want to do something other than proxmox (just use Debian, fedora, or opensuse).
Its not bad from the CLI, you just need to know your commands.
Will get you 1 vcpu, 1GB ram, and an 8GB drive worth of debian. If you don’t specify a path, in home under .local/share/libvirt/images it will go!
You can also then
And you’ll get the XML, where you can edit away.
Personally, I’d rather use the webgui for most things, but yeah its perfectly doable from the CLI.
pineapple@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I would have thought debian is better than ubuntu but I couldn’t find a server version of debian. Where do I find debian server or debian cli only?
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 1 day ago
Debian is by default suited for server. Just skip the desktop environment part in the installer.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
With libvirt it is fairly easy yes. And you can also install a standalone web-gui like Cockpit or use the desktop app virt-manager over ssh to do it.