Wow that is a whole bunch of curling/execing bash scripts that curl/exec other bash scripts.
Scripts for Streamlining Your Homelab with Proxmox VE
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#12Slightly off topic: I’m setting up a home server on a Mini PC that has Windows 11 Pro pre-installed. I want to attach it to my TV and play retro games as well as run home automation tasks (periodic scripts, UniFi controller, Pihole etc)
Is anyone using Proxmox on their homelabs? Would you recommend blowing away Windows and installing Proxmox and then install Windows with PCIE passthrough?
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#13If anyone is looking at proxmox, running these scripts from the host will speed up experimenting. It’s great to have something up and running in minutes to only redo it slightly differently. If you are considering two proxmox hosts ensure the second one added to the cluster is an empty proxmox host, and the proxmox cluster from the first box will assign unique id’s to all containers on any host.
Also, for homelabbing, there's a magic incantation that allows you to configure Proxmox away from the default High Availability cluster mode.
By default, the HA mode insists that all nodes are up or others won't come up, making this tweak (it may be contained in the OP scripts, I don't recall) allows you to retain many of the benefits of having Proxmox machines "connected", without requiring you treat them like a HA cluster.
In my case, I have a node I shutdown when it's not used, I use it for specific occasional tasks, and then I have nodes I want up all of the time.
With the non-HA tweaks, you can still do things like centrally manage, migrate VMs and containers between nodes etc, without the limitations of it wanting them all up and available all of the time.
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#14Slightly off topic: I’m setting up a home server on a Mini PC that has Windows 11 Pro pre-installed. I want to attach it to my TV and play retro games as well as run home automation tasks (periodic scripts, UniFi controller, Pihole etc) Is anyone using Proxmox on their homelabs? Would you recommend blowing away Windows and installing Proxmox and then install Windows with PCIE passthrough?
You really should have different physical hardware for such different use-cases.
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#15Slightly off topic: I’m setting up a home server on a Mini PC that has Windows 11 Pro pre-installed. I want to attach it to my TV and play retro games as well as run home automation tasks (periodic scripts, UniFi controller, Pihole etc) Is anyone using Proxmox on their homelabs? Would you recommend blowing away Windows and installing Proxmox and then install Windows with PCIE passthrough?
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#16Slightly off topic: I’m setting up a home server on a Mini PC that has Windows 11 Pro pre-installed. I want to attach it to my TV and play retro games as well as run home automation tasks (periodic scripts, UniFi controller, Pihole etc) Is anyone using Proxmox on their homelabs? Would you recommend blowing away Windows and installing Proxmox and then install Windows with PCIE passthrough?
I have run proxmox for several years, rely on it for many bits of house and network infrastructure, and recommend proxmox overall. My desktop also runs proxmox with PCIe passthrough for my "actual" desktop (but this is a different proxmox server from the primary VM and container host for infrastructure).
That said, I wouldn't mix the two use cases either initially nor over the long-term. House/network infrastructure should be on a more stable host than the retro-game console connected to your TV (IMO).
In your case, I'd recommend buying another PC (even an ancient Haswell would be fine to start) and getting experience with vanilla proxmox usage there before jumping straight into trying to run infra and MAME/retro gaming on PCIe passthrough on the same singleton box.
Re: Scripts for Streamlining Your Homelab with Proxmox VE
#17Slightly off topic: I’m setting up a home server on a Mini PC that has Windows 11 Pro pre-installed. I want to attach it to my TV and play retro games as well as run home automation tasks (periodic scripts, UniFi controller, Pihole etc) Is anyone using Proxmox on their homelabs? Would you recommend blowing away Windows and installing Proxmox and then install Windows with PCIE passthrough?
I did this for a while where I ran multiple VMs, some of which had PCIE passthrough for some GPUs on both Windows and Linux. Luckily my motherboard separated out IOMMU groupings to make this work for me. While you _could_ do this, you may run into issues if your IOMMU groups aren't separated enough. The biggest issue I always had was drivers always causing issues with Windows. I eventually blew the entire instance away and just run Windows.
I'd recommend a separate device if you need any access to a GPU. But I do recommend Proxmox as a homelab. I still have it running on a separate 2012 Mac Mini.
Re: Scripts for Streamlining Your Homelab with Proxmox VE
#18Slightly off topic: I’m setting up a home server on a Mini PC that has Windows 11 Pro pre-installed. I want to attach it to my TV and play retro games as well as run home automation tasks (periodic scripts, UniFi controller, Pihole etc) Is anyone using Proxmox on their homelabs? Would you recommend blowing away Windows and installing Proxmox and then install Windows with PCIE passthrough?
From what I know you cannot pass the primary video card to a guest, so you'd need a second video card to pass-through to the guest.
But i'd be happy to be proven wrong.
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#19Slightly off topic: I’m setting up a home server on a Mini PC that has Windows 11 Pro pre-installed. I want to attach it to my TV and play retro games as well as run home automation tasks (periodic scripts, UniFi controller, Pihole etc) Is anyone using Proxmox on their homelabs? Would you recommend blowing away Windows and installing Proxmox and then install Windows with PCIE passthrough?
I’m in the middle of this. Got a Bee Link miniPC. It came with windows, licensed oddly. I’m configuring it as a home server. Current plan is to migrate my Unraid install over from the vintage server it’s currently on. Most services are run in docker. We’ll see how performance is.
ProxMox is on my list to try out. So far I’m very happy with Unraid. It makes it easy to set up network shares, find and deploy containerized services, and handles VMs if you need them. I try to avoid the VM and focus on containers because it’s more flexible resource wise.
Re: Scripts for Streamlining Your Homelab with Proxmox VE
#20The actual scripts: https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox After poking at a couple of these, they seem like they're 50% shiny packaging and 50% one-liner bash commands.
Bro we spend all day looking at screens. Literally the definition of shiny packages