Subj : Re: Coming back to Linux
To : hyjinx
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Sep 20 2025 12:31 pm
-=> hyjinx wrote to Accession <=-
hy> I'll have another look at the website, but last week or so, I was
hy> watching some fella running a Linux box and he had a nice GUI which
hy> dashboarded his proxmox host and all the VMs were running all his VMs,
hy> Windows 11, all the Linux you could shake a stick at. Just like VMWare
hy> ESXi or similar. The good thing about proxmox is that it is running
hy> Debian under the hood, so you can do what you want on the host machine
hy> too (as long as you are OK with running Debian as your machine).
hy> What do you think about the guest VMs though? Do you think they will
hy> get enough graphics grunt to do things like light gaming?
I've seen people do PCI passthrough and let a VM get direct access to
the GPU, so you can game in a VM.
I have 2 ESXi servers at work that are lightly loaded. I'm planning on
moving them to Proxmox during my next hardware refresh.
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