Proxmox for a Sworkstation?

[oguruma]

I'd interested in building a machine with lots of RAM, CPU cores, and multiple GPUs to host a few VMs.

It would be 2 Windows VMs, and a Linux VM, each having their own GPU and USB controller.

These would basically function as virtual workstations, and would support 2 users (both in physical proximity to the physical machine).

Since I don't really need a GUI on the host machine, is Proxmox a good solution to do this?

 

[leesteken]

I happily run something like that with Proxmox with AMD consumer GPUs. Make sure the motherboard IOMMU groups give you enough isolated USB controllers (or PCIe slots for USB controllers that work with passthrough) and can accommodate 3 GPUs (in separate IOMMU groups). Passthrough is still hit or miss, so please do your research before buying.

 

[rabban]

Hi,

Yes, as leesteken mentioned you can do that and you should be careful about passthrough. You can also access directly to the VMs by using RDP or VNC without any problem. Or if you want and require, direct console access to each VM by using Proxmox GUI.

 

[oguruma]

What have the struggles with passthrough been? I used GPU passthrough for several months with a Ubuntu machine and it seemed to work as intended.