Harware recommendation - Debian Linux Guest Spice

[TKH]

Hi,

hope I did not miss some recommendation already available in the forum and/or Wiki - if so, please can someone point me to it?

While I found a lot of discussions on server hardware, I have not seen anything on client machine hardware.

Assuming the server is well selected for my requirements, what CPU, RAM, motherboard (preferably mini-itx) would be recommended for running a "normal" client for office work and internet browsing (no interest in gaming)? The guest would be Debian 9 Stretch.

One 24" monitor would be connected to the client machine using a standard resolution of 1920*1080. No graphics card in the server.

Driver support should be good out of the box - otherwise I do not care really if Intel or AMD.

Not yet migrated to Proxmox (working on it ) and currently still in a physical Debian 9 set-up using on an old AMD E-350 CPU, 8 GB RAM and really suffering as CPU is always at 100% and browsing real slow although connection to the internet is 50 MBit/s....

Thanks

 

[TKH]

Hi,

no one who can help here please?

Do the host (without dedicated GPU) and the client share the load somehow?? e.g.when web pages are rendered in the browser on the client machine? or is the performance the user will experience when using Spice solely depending on the client?

I would like to set-up my client machine at >reasonable< costs.

To further illustrate - my assumption would be: if I am using a Raspberry PI as client I will most probably not see acceptable performance. Going for the latest AMD Ryzen 2400G CPU/APU combo however might be overkill. If so, what would be a reasonable client? maybe a Core i3 (which would have better driver support than the new AMD on Linux?) or something else?

Thanks