Installing Proxmox VE VMs in a different computer?

[leesd]

I asked a similar question in the previews post and thank you for all your replies.
Now I am getting close to what I need to do.

The journey I started to look for Proxmox started after my favorite game wouldn't start in Hyper V vms. it still runs in VMware workstation vms but those don't have GPU passthru so it is difficult to play.

My current PC has good GPU and it has 1 x M.2, 5 x SSD. And I am planning to get another pc or a server to only install Proxmox VE in it and I'd like to install Proxmox virtual machines into the my current PC by connecting them together. Is it possible to do that?

I have a chance to buy either Dell power Edge 840, quadro core, Xeon x3220, 2.4 ghz or ASUS H97I-Plus , i7-4790K, 4GHz, 4 core. Which one is better for my purpose? Thank you in advance.

 

[UdoB]

Xeon x3220, 2.4 ghz or ASUS H97I-Plus , i7-4790K, 4GHz

Well, the Xeon used to be a good Server CPU (with ECC and so on), but the newer i7 is four times as fast (but lacks ECC, afaik):

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1279vs2275/Intel-Xeon-X3220-vs-Intel-i7-4790K

And I am planning to get another pc or a server to only install Proxmox VE in it and I'd like to install Proxmox virtual machines into the my current PC by connecting them together. Is it possible to do that?

I am not sure if I can follow this statement.

Yes, you can connect them. In PVE context we usually talk about building a cluster. For this you install PVE on several hardware machines. I am NOT sure if that is what you want...

You can use VMs running on the planned server from your current PC without a cluster. All you need is a web browser. Note that getting acceptable performance is a rabbit hole for remote access and you need to read about PCI passthrough and so on. Personally I have no experience with this.

 

[leesd]

Well, the Xeon used to be a good Server CPU (with ECC and so on), but the newer i7 is four times as fast (but lacks ECC, afaik):

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1279vs2275/Intel-Xeon-X3220-vs-Intel-i7-4790K


I am not sure if I can follow this statement.

Yes, you can connect them. In PVE context we usually talk about building a cluster. For this you install PVE on several hardware machines. I am NOT sure if that is what you want...

You can use VMs running on the planned server from your current PC without a cluster. All you need is a web browser. Note that getting acceptable performance is a rabbit hole for remote access and you need to read about PCI passthrough and so on. Personally I have no experience with this.

Thank you for reply. I am really new to Proxmox and honestly I have no clue. My current PC has good GPU with enough RAM to run many things, and I have 5x SSDs. So I can use this PC as a server and install the Proxmox VE and virtual machines.

What I do not understand is, how can I access web browser when Proxmox ve doesn't have any thin on the screen. All I can see is " Login:" I didn't even know what I supposed to write there until I watched some YT. Can someone explain to me how I can access web browser from the " Login" screen?

Another idea I got from someone is that I can use Debian and i can still use Windows OS and install it inside of Windows OS in a different drive and also install Proxmox VE and virtual machines there. My question is, if I install PVE inside of Windows OS in a separate drive will the PVE VMs have GPU passthrough?

 

[UdoB]

What I do not understand is, how can I access web browser when Proxmox ve doesn't have any thin on the screen. All I can see is " Login:" I didn't even know what I supposed to write there until I watched some YT. Can someone explain to me how I can access web browser from the " Login" screen?

Sure; it just is a different model than usual - for a desktop user.

You've given that PVE an IP address, right? Just open that IP address like "https://192.0.2.1:8006" in your browser ;-)

https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pv...ng_the_management_interface_post_installation