Proxmox on a Laptop with Gnome + Power Management + Suspend + Bluetooth + Wifi

[logui]

I want to use my Laptop (Dell XPS 9520) with Proxmox as the base/host OS with Gnome desktop and functional basic laptop features, like Suspend, Power Management, Wireless and Bluetooth, I have tried the following options:

1.- Installed Proxmox then Gnome desktop:
- I couldn't get Wifi and Bluetooth to work (any recommendation)
- Will the Proxmox Kernel do power management of the laptop efficiently (couldn't validate this)
- Didn't test suspend (sorry my bad)
- Will Gnome-core be enough? I don't need most of the other Gnome applications

2.- Installed Debian 12.5 then Proxmox:
- Everything laptop wise (power management, suspend, wifi, Bluetooth) was working fine with the base Debian 12.5 install
- When I installed Proxmox on top, and the Debian kernel was replaced with the Proxmox kernel, Wifi and Bluetooth stopped working
- I didn't fully validated all the other laptop functionality (suspend, power management)

What option do you recommend best to have a functional and stable laptop with power management, suspend, wifi and bluetooth operational from the laptop/desktop perspective, and having a solid PVE running in the background, any recommendation or guide you can reference will be appreciated, thank you

 

[LnxBil]

What about running your Linux OS of choice and then PVE inside a KVM or VirtualBox VM with nested virtualization enabled? I don't see fully laptop support in PVE. It's not the primary target OS.

 

[logui]

What about running your Linux OS of choice and then PVE inside a KVM or VirtualBox VM with nested virtualization enabled? I don't see fully laptop support in PVE. It's not the primary target OS.

That’s a valid option, how do you implement nested virtualization in KVM with Virt Manager or Gnome Boxes? I have not used Virtual Box

 

[fpausp]

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