I’m considering to switch to Proxmox for my main PC, run a Windows VM on top and passthrough the GPU to play games. However, I heard anti-cheates aren’t that friendly to VMs. Had anyone tried this? Thanks.

  • f00f/eris@startrek.websiteEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    Isn’t Proxmox intended for servers whose only use is to run VMs? Why not go for a traditional desktop distro like Mint and run KVM, QEMU, or VirtualBox on it?

    Anyway, I have heard something like this, but it probably depends on the anti-cheat. Some might run in kernel mode to deliberately detect VMs. Others won’t care if you use a VM.

    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      1 year ago

      Proxmox runs KVM/Qemu in the backend, so it’s essentially the same thing. OP might want to have a machine in their rack they use for remote gaming for example.

      Also don’t use VirtualBox.

        • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
          8·
          1 year ago

          It’s subpar, closed source, kernel module installing, type 2 virtualization that makes users believe VMs are slow, when in fact Type 1 hypervisors usually achieve near 98% efficiency. And too boot it means that open-source projects like virt-manager don’t get the usership they deserve and need to continue being maintained.

          There is legit not a single reason to use it on Linux, and there hasn’t been in well over a decade.

          • HumanPerson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Wow I didn’t even know it was closed source. Thanks for pointing this out, I will definitely be getting virt-manager.

            • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
              3·
              1 year ago

              It’s not entirely closed source, but the extension packs are. The other reason are the main one that should make you switch. Why use subpar software when there’s a better, trusted by the entire industry, alternative builtin already?

              • HumanPerson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                I am already spinning up a Debian vm. I had a minor issue with file permissions but it it is working great now and is definitely faster than I remember virtualbox being. I am so glad I saw your comment and I would switch to this even if Richard Stallman himself wrote Virtualbox and all the extensions.

                • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  It’s also a whole lot more flexible. And will easily do full PCIe passthrough with some more advance configuration. virt-manager even works remotely over SSH if you have another machine you want to run your VMs on!

                  • HumanPerson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    GPU passthrough was the next thing I tried! Do you know any good tutorials? The one I found tells me to do mkinitcpio but I don’t seem to have that. I think I mentioned this is Debian but in case I forgot its Debian.

      • f00f/eris@startrek.websiteEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It sounded like OP wanted to install Proxmox on their main PC, which would imply using it as a daily driver desktop OS, which it isn’t.

        • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          It is not but more like a building block for my daily driver.

          I plan to use Proxmox VE to build a virtual infrastructure in one machine. It will have many VMs running and one of it would be my daily driver.