Installing Proxmox VE VMs in a different computer?

leesd

New Member
May 15, 2025
12
0
1
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.
 
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.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Johannes S