Setting up VMs and a couple rookie questions

[thusband]

I have a refurbished Intel i7 NUC arriving soon so my plan is to install Proxmox and then use it to handle both Blue Iris and Home Assistant and maybe some other stuff down the road. I've been doing a lot of reading and viewing YouTube videos and setting up the Windows VM looks a bit complicated but doable. Obviously I'll need a Windows VM and Linux VM.

A few questions.

Once I have the Windows VM set up I install Blue Iris like I would on a normal PC with Windows but the installation of Home Assistant has me a little confused. I've watched this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrKQkI53xys, where it looks like the installation of Home Assistant and Linux are all in one. Is that the case?

Also I guess you really need two computers to make all this happen? One where Proxmox is installed and another to download the iso files so you can then transfer them to Proxmox. Or am I overthinking this?

Thanks for any pointers.

 

[Dunuin]

Also I guess you really need two computers to make all this happen? One where Proxmox is installed and another to download the iso files so you can then transfer them to Proxmox. Or am I overthinking this?

By default PVE will run headless, so you can't access the PVE webUI fromthe NUC itself, unless you manually install a desktop environment like for example described here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Workstations_with_Proxmox_VE_and_X11
Because otherwise all you get is a text console.

The basic idea is to access your server from another client.
But if you just want to get ISOs to your ISO storage, there is also a "Download from URL" Button so your PVE can directly download that ISO file from the internet. But then you still ofcause need something that can use a browser to access your webUI.

 

[thusband]

By default PVE will run headless, so you can't access the PVE webUI fromthe NUC itself, unless you manually install a desktop environment like for example described here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Workstations_with_Proxmox_VE_and_X11
Because otherwise all you get is a text console.

The basic idea is to access your server from another client.
But if you just want to get ISOs to your ISO storage, there is also a "Download from URL" Button so your PVE can directly download that ISO file from the internet. But then you still ofcause need something that can use a browser to access your webUI.

So I'll need another computer. That's OK, I have one. I just wanted to make sure.
Thanks.