Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against.

• curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Should I switch to Ubuntu server?

  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.

  virt-install --name=deb13-vm --vcpus=1 --memory=1024 --cdrom=/tmp/debian-13.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso --disk size=8 --os-variant=debian13
  

  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

  virsh edit deb13-vm
  

  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.

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  • 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?

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    • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Debian is by default suited for server. Just skip the desktop environment part in the installer.

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      • pineapple@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oh ok, I’ve never installed debian before so thats good to know.

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• 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.

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