looking to get the most out of proxmox and help others do the same. what are your favorite uses for proxmox and/or your favorite tricks/hacks/scripts/tweaks to use to make your experience better?
a few of my favorites to start the thread (not really advanced stuff most of it is really basic but useful and fairly easy to follow for those who need it):
TTeck's Proxmox VE helper scripts
Nvidia GPU:
vGPU unlock: PolloLoco - NVIDIA vGPU Guide
licensing: Oscar Krause - FastAPI-DLS
mods:
temp in summary:
pve-mods (including temp in ui, be mindful when using as they are for an older version and you may not want all the mods)
Filesystem:
[TUTORIAL] virtiofsd in PVE 8.0.x (mount drives inside VMs similar to how you share folders to LXCs)
&
SSHFS (linux) & SSHFS-Win (windows) & SSHFS-win-manager (Windows GUI for SSHFS, requires SSHFS-Win & WINFSP to be installed). (mount drives in VMs or on local/remote computers via SSH, i personally use this from my laptop to mount the storage devices in proxmox)
i typically use a secondary NVME for pagefile/swap files for VMs and the host, (best to use a enterprise PCIE SSD or intel optane) it has a big impact on performance esp in systems that are not top tier performance.
disabling core isolation, windows defender and uninstalling some of the windows apps really helps windows performance.
defrag, windows scattering files to the wind like confetti on hard drives i have noticed wastes a lot of space on LVM-Thin virtual disks that are not ore-allocated.
things i run:
LXC:
docker (jellyseer, homarr homepage, portainer, open-webui)
nextcloud (thinking about switching to cryptpad)
jellyfin
VM:
Ubuntu
PopOS
OSX (OSX-PROXMOX - Run macOS on ANY Computer - AMD & Intel)
Win 10 gaming VM (vGPU + Sunshine (Github) / Moonlight ( Github ) sunshine and moonlight can stream your VM games to almost ANY device. some games also play fine if you tweak remote desktop.)
Win 10 (video processing, AI (Ollama for text, easy diffusion for images) and gaming sometimes)
remote desktop tweaks:
optimize performance on vGPU/GPU passthrough
Local group policy editor (run > gpedit.msc) go to
enable:
enable 60FPS in remote desktop:
open registry editor (run > regedit) go to
create
more RDP twekas: Upinel/BetterRDP Optimization Settings & TurboRemoteFX (more tweaks to look over)
RDP 360 controller plugin: RdpGamepad - a Remote Desktop Plugin for Xbox Gamepads (allowing local client connected controllers to interact with the VM works on both RDP and moonlight)
a few of my favorites to start the thread (not really advanced stuff most of it is really basic but useful and fairly easy to follow for those who need it):
TTeck's Proxmox VE helper scripts
Nvidia GPU:
vGPU unlock: PolloLoco - NVIDIA vGPU Guide
licensing: Oscar Krause - FastAPI-DLS
mods:
temp in summary:
pve-mods (including temp in ui, be mindful when using as they are for an older version and you may not want all the mods)
Filesystem:
[TUTORIAL] virtiofsd in PVE 8.0.x (mount drives inside VMs similar to how you share folders to LXCs)
&
SSHFS (linux) & SSHFS-Win (windows) & SSHFS-win-manager (Windows GUI for SSHFS, requires SSHFS-Win & WINFSP to be installed). (mount drives in VMs or on local/remote computers via SSH, i personally use this from my laptop to mount the storage devices in proxmox)
i typically use a secondary NVME for pagefile/swap files for VMs and the host, (best to use a enterprise PCIE SSD or intel optane) it has a big impact on performance esp in systems that are not top tier performance.
disabling core isolation, windows defender and uninstalling some of the windows apps really helps windows performance.
defrag, windows scattering files to the wind like confetti on hard drives i have noticed wastes a lot of space on LVM-Thin virtual disks that are not ore-allocated.
things i run:
LXC:
docker (jellyseer, homarr homepage, portainer, open-webui)
nextcloud (thinking about switching to cryptpad)
jellyfin
VM:
Ubuntu
PopOS
OSX (OSX-PROXMOX - Run macOS on ANY Computer - AMD & Intel)
Win 10 gaming VM (vGPU + Sunshine (Github) / Moonlight ( Github ) sunshine and moonlight can stream your VM games to almost ANY device. some games also play fine if you tweak remote desktop.)
Win 10 (video processing, AI (Ollama for text, easy diffusion for images) and gaming sometimes)
remote desktop tweaks:
optimize performance on vGPU/GPU passthrough
Local group policy editor (run > gpedit.msc) go to
administrative templates > windows components > remote desktop services > remote desktop session host >enable:
Code:
Use hardware Graphics adapters for all remote desktop services sessions
use advanced remoteFX graphics for remoteapp
prioritize H.264/AVC 444 graphics mode for remote desktop connections
Enable remoteFx encoding for remoteFX clients designed for windows server 2008 R2 SP1
configure remoteF adaptive graphics (Scalability)
configure image quality for remoteFX adaptive graphics (high)
configure H.264/AVC Hardware encoding for remote desktop connections
configure compression for remoteFX data (do not use an RDP compression algorithm)enable 60FPS in remote desktop:
open registry editor (run > regedit) go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStationscreate
DWORD (32-bit) Value. named DWMFRAMEINTERVALset decimal 15more RDP twekas: Upinel/BetterRDP Optimization Settings & TurboRemoteFX (more tweaks to look over)
RDP 360 controller plugin: RdpGamepad - a Remote Desktop Plugin for Xbox Gamepads (allowing local client connected controllers to interact with the VM works on both RDP and moonlight)
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