I'd say the only downside to Proxmox as a VM server is that it doesn't allow you to emulate non-x64 CPUs like you can with virt-manager, at least not from the UI.
The best part of proxmox is how easy clustering is. Set up two hosts, then you can live migrate the VMs between hosts with the push of a button. Makes hardware maintenance a breeze (until you run out of memory, or try to shut down the whole cluster).
Proxmox makes VM creation and management very easy (specially with PCIe passthough). The real winner though, is using LXC containers which boot almost instantly and use less resources than VM's.
I did that on my box, but nobody pays attention to shit like that... if they know what they are (as you just wrote) then they'd know how to get rid of them. They don't harm anything as default anyway.
Ahh nice! VMM's great for if you need a desktop in addition, but if you don't... Plus with Proxmox you get easy access to VMs and LXCs - which I've found LXCs are great if you've got an Intel CPU with the integrated GPU for doing like jellyfin, frigate or media encoding since you don't have to pass through the GPU to it and can be shared amongst several LXCs (with passthrough you have to give it to one VM). I originally started with VirtualBox Headless in 2009 on a netbook and have just moved from there since virtualisation is great! P.S you're definitely wearing a shirt in this one haha :D
Netbook? I hope you mistyped Notebook o_O Doing that back then on an Atom could've smoothed-out part of anyone's brain! Thankfully, nowadays it's not hard to install Proxmox on a Pi.
@@WoodyWilliams nope, not a typo. A dell Inspiron Mini 1012 haha. Only a couple of simple linux shell servers (jumpboxes I called them) and a low mem XP machine. I also had my fileserver on the host with two USB drives. One rsynced to the other - this was after I accidentally had formatted my single, non-backed up terabyte a few years before by typing an F instead of a G, so I learned my lesson :D
Years ago I used proxmox for a non-profit’s VM hosting and it worked a treat. Intuitive to setup (didn’t really know what I was doing at the time) and it ran for over 10 years.
The title kinda surprised me -- Proxmox hasn't changed much since you covered it. I wonder if I'm guilty of commenting before searching someone's video list. Probably :|
