Comment on Proxmox on Laptop, Network Setup
scholar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When you say you want to use proxmox as your daily driver, what sort of things are you wanting to do with it? Are you going to be spending most of your time inside a WM, and want to be able to switch to a different VM? I’m struggling to see your use case.
RealBot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I would do everything in VMs, mostly Linux and probably one Windows. Proxmox would be only for managing VMs. I want everything in VMs because it’s more flexible for partitioning storage and i can have both Linux and Windows runing at the same time (which can’t be done with dualboot). I am student of computer science so i use it for programming, both for college and side projects. Sometimes there are a lot of programs i have so OS kind of gets bloated, not so much from performance standpoint but just mental overhead of having 10, 20, 30 programs and having to keep in mind what program needs what dependencies, env variables, etc… so i want to kind of group them to VMs and CTs.
scholar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’d probably be better off picking a normal distro and then running QEMU to run Windows or other VMs. Proxmox is more comparable to VMware ESXi in that it is designed for running server VMs and managed through a web ui.
RealBot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have thought about that, but Proxmox already has built-in a lot of things for virtualization and managing VMs and has less bloat because it has only one purpose.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s still the wrong tool for the job though.
As others have said get a regular desktop os and enable qemu.
exu@feditown.com 2 months ago
Have you thought about trying QubesOS instead, as it’s pretty much built for this purpose?
RealBot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s interesting, haven’t considered that. Although I would want to run most things in CTs/LXCs and not full VMs for performance reasons. And Proxmox has more DIY feel which i kind of like. If I fail with Proxmox, might give QubesOS a try.
Findmysec@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Qubes OS doesn’t have GPU acceleration using Virtio-powered interfaces if that’s something you need. Also it’s based on Xen and you are not encouraged to mess around with dom0.
TBH if there’s a way that you can attach to the display output of a VM with a GUI when you start your computer, it will probably fit your use-case perfectly. I haven’t found a method to do this but I think there should be some way to attach directly to the display of a VM after booting up.
anzo@programming.dev 2 months ago
And check their device compatibility list. Also, you’ll need plenty of RAM.