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Benefits of Proxmox VE vs. libvirt/KVM? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by kitanokikori@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Are there any benefits of running Proxmox and virtualizing everything, vs having a host OS and running Docker and libvirt to host VMs for services that need it? I know that Proxmox does some storage management etc, but it seems like I could get everything it does with a well-managed host OS + ZFS/btrfs and using virtualization tools

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[โ€“] POFusr@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How important is it that the machine also host local graphical sessions? Asking because if I recall correctly, Promox doesn't offer a GUI by default. If you're going to use the machine for anything else, I feel like one would end up installing and configuring more things, in order to also have a graphical environment in Proxmox, than they would to install the preq's for libvirt/KVM under Debian with a graphical install (et al.). Of course, there isn't a snappy web-GUI if you go the libvirt/KVM route (by default), but virsh CLI and Virtual Machine Manager GUI, offer similar functionality.

[โ€“] POFusr@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Down vote with no explanation, hmmm