Create a ProxMox VM as an everyday personal computer?

[Joe Sudhoff]

New to this forum and to ProxMox VE and starting to like it must better that ESXi.

So is there a way to use one of the VM's as your everyday personal computer? I have 2 Dell Poweredge R710's, 1 Dell 690 and 1 Dell 670 and would like to utilize them all as Proxmox servers and not a desktop. I have looked thru Google and YouTube to find what I need but also afraid I am not asking the question the right way because what comes up is people putting GPU's in their servers.

After looking on Google and Youtube I came across people putting GPU's in the R710 and they explained it's use as more processing power and also passed it to a VM for remote video (not sure what that does) but what if you installed a video card and passed it to the Proxmox VM and also passed a couple USB ports to it for the keyboard and mouse? Audio I was not worried about because HDMI has audio.

Would this be possible or am I trying to do an impossible configuration?

Thanks

Joe

 

[joshin]

It's possible, and doable. Though a bit of a pain.

Read up on PCI-passthrough. Lots of posts here and in the wiki.

Good luck!

 

[tom]

All Proxmox VE devs are working with Proxmox VE on their desktops - more or less default setups with GNOME or i3 installed.

Here is a short wiki - a bit outdated but still useful

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Workstations_with_Proxmox_VE_and_X11

 

[AlexLup]

Read up on PCI passthrough to a VM on your cluster, then check out parsec gaming for streaming/gaming to said VM workstation!

 

[Joe Sudhoff]

Thanks for the replies, I will look into that.