Is Proxmox for me?

[Boondock]

All,

My requirement is only for my personal use. My main machine is an Intel I7 with 64Gb memory, a GTX3060 GPU and 3.5TB storage spit between SSD &HD.
I prefer to use Linux but have several currently irreplaceable programs that only run under 64 bit Windows. Unfortunately they are not compatible with Wine.
My heaviest use is embroidery, graphics and photography software. I also experiment a lot and wish to isolate said experiments from working instances.

I've tried dual boot with catastrophic results.

So I would prefer a low impact type 1 hypervisor, such as Proxmox, that will allow me to run multiple VMs, in particular Windows and Linux in various distros, for both permanent and experimental uses.

My main issue is that I need my machine to to make the best use of my GPU for passthrough . I've seen in the threads that this is quite difficult to achieve.

Should I choose a different hypervisor or is Proxmox able to be used for my circumstances efficiently?

Advice please.

Regards

Boondock

 

[Dunuin]

Somew things to keep in mind:
1.) Proxmox by default runs headless so you access your VMs with another computer over some remote desktop protocols like SPICE/RDP/VNC. If you want to use your VMs from the same machine, you would need to add a desktop environment yourself (which might screw a lot of things up...like networking, power saving, ...) so you could run a browser, virt-viewer and so on.
2.) VMs can't make use of physical hardware of the host unless you pass that hardware through. And if you for example passthrough your 3060 into a VM, neither the host nor any other VM can use it. Same with disk controllers, usb controllers, soundcards and whatever.

 

[pvps1]

All,

My requirement is only for my personal use. My main machine is an Intel I7 with 64Gb memory, a GTX3060 GPU and 3.5TB storage spit between SSD &HD.
I prefer to use Linux but have several currently irreplaceable programs that only run under 64 bit Windows. Unfortunately they are not compatible with Wine.
My heaviest use is embroidery, graphics and photography software. I also experiment a lot and wish to isolate said experiments from working instances.

I've tried dual boot with catastrophic results.

So I would prefer a low impact type 1 hypervisor, such as Proxmox, that will allow me to run multiple VMs, in particular Windows and Linux in various distros, for both permanent and experimental uses.

My main issue is that I need my machine to to make the best use of my GPU for passthrough . I've seen in the threads that this is quite difficult to achieve.

Should I choose a different hypervisor or is Proxmox able to be used for my circumstances efficiently?

Advice please.

Regards

Boondock

I would not recommend pve as desktop virtualization. that's what you are describing.
pve's focus is on datacenter virtualization / private cloud

I'd simply use KVM e.g. virt-manager. probably virtualbox.

 

[Boondock]

I would not recommend pve as desktop virtualization. that's what you are describing.
pve's focus is on datacenter virtualization / private cloud

I'd simply use KVM e.g. virt-manager. probably virtualbox.

Sadly I have to agree with you all that Proxmox is not for me. I really like the Proxmox concept.

I'll keep my options open in case my requirements change.

Regards

Boondock