hi there,
i hope i post this in the right forum. as new user here are my quick first impressions and issues i had so far.
1) pls include a darkmode setup, the white BG and small fonts are hard on the eye, is there a (remote)terminal installer ? would be handy if like the plain debian netinstall the pve installer it came with ssh and 5900 vnc port open to an ipaddress and password/ssh key of choice. this would make headless installs way better.
2) pls include an option to install pve only on a partition of choice and not take over the whole disk, install it allong, grub has a feature that lets to reboot to the working OS, (i like have the boot on the same, that way i can use a live iso and set the bootflag where i need it)
#GRUB_DEFAULT=0 # Rather than option #1, we'll always default to last boot choice.
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
3) for free use, does it need to nag at boot, why not place a banner in the user-settings or make the CE version donation-ware like elementary OS or use the zorin model. license key nags feels so windows, to me its a big nono in linuxland, also there is technically no need to force asking for an email on setup.
at first i had it setup on a usb (old hhd on a 480MB gen 2 usb adapter), but that was not a happy camper. but it did work, i even got 2 VM running on it, but to slow to be useful. now i have wiped the internal SATA3 and even though its on an old laptop i5-560M , it can handle more than i need for the moment. i have 1 windows VM and 2 linux desktops and couple of CT running for things like docker, so far am very impressed.
where i think a hypervisor like proxmox can shine would be to give users even more control over the VM and data layers, it would be neat if proxmox would handle mounting things like docker into the CT or VM, that way you wouldnt need to setup a complete stack and can switch a CT for a never version but keep the data. basically how docker handles images and data layers.
ZFS is not for the newbee, although its nice to have the compression and CoW, but much can be accomplished with lvm thin provisions. on the USB i had 1500GB out of 750GB disk, which might also explain why windows was so slow.
on the SSD i currently use ext4.
i hope i post this in the right forum. as new user here are my quick first impressions and issues i had so far.
1) pls include a darkmode setup, the white BG and small fonts are hard on the eye, is there a (remote)terminal installer ? would be handy if like the plain debian netinstall the pve installer it came with ssh and 5900 vnc port open to an ipaddress and password/ssh key of choice. this would make headless installs way better.
2) pls include an option to install pve only on a partition of choice and not take over the whole disk, install it allong, grub has a feature that lets to reboot to the working OS, (i like have the boot on the same, that way i can use a live iso and set the bootflag where i need it)
#GRUB_DEFAULT=0 # Rather than option #1, we'll always default to last boot choice.
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
3) for free use, does it need to nag at boot, why not place a banner in the user-settings or make the CE version donation-ware like elementary OS or use the zorin model. license key nags feels so windows, to me its a big nono in linuxland, also there is technically no need to force asking for an email on setup.
at first i had it setup on a usb (old hhd on a 480MB gen 2 usb adapter), but that was not a happy camper. but it did work, i even got 2 VM running on it, but to slow to be useful. now i have wiped the internal SATA3 and even though its on an old laptop i5-560M , it can handle more than i need for the moment. i have 1 windows VM and 2 linux desktops and couple of CT running for things like docker, so far am very impressed.
where i think a hypervisor like proxmox can shine would be to give users even more control over the VM and data layers, it would be neat if proxmox would handle mounting things like docker into the CT or VM, that way you wouldnt need to setup a complete stack and can switch a CT for a never version but keep the data. basically how docker handles images and data layers.
ZFS is not for the newbee, although its nice to have the compression and CoW, but much can be accomplished with lvm thin provisions. on the USB i had 1500GB out of 750GB disk, which might also explain why windows was so slow.
on the SSD i currently use ext4.
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