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Suggestion: spare your future self right now and move to a bare metal Debian install with LXD/LXC (from the repository) for containers/VMs. You can probably do just fine with using containers for everything. LXD is easy, fast, reliable and all of those are way more reliable / reasonable / open-source / less bullshit filled than Proxmox.
I actually did this and reccomend for a power user (for me it was proxmox didn't quick enough implement virtio-fs), but in case you want a full proxmox like setup I got some recommendations:
Use LXD-ui. Its a bit annoying with the certificates but gives a nice n easy to use ui (I was only able to figure out how to get this working with the snap, but I didn't try too hard)
Setup Virt manager through gtk Broadway. This one requires your own security implementations so definitely don't just open it to the whole internet, but it allows you to manage VM's in a browser intuitively.
Setup ssh, vnc, sunshine, tailscale, a device local to the host you can connect to any number of remote desktop solutions you can cause it all likelyhood setting things up you will break a thing or 2 and it sucks having no access to your device
Use syncthing or resilio sync to share files between a client and the host PC, saves a lot of time trying fancier stuff like rsync (can probably be used to setup multiple servers storage backup, in case of power outage or whatever but I personally only have 1 host)
I never quite understood that project and what limitations that thing has, for instance applications aren't usually exclusively and purely GTK, them what happens? You get a black square?
+1
I think it only works with pure gtk applications, so others just wont have the CLI option to launch
Just to clarify I'm talking about using it for only the virt-manager window, not the whole desktop
Okay, that's fair. For full desktops an LXD container with xrdp is a better option (eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JrI0m9u3jY) and one day I'll get one of those working with GPU acceleration.
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I mean that's fine if you dont want kernel space isolation. Lxd and proxmox are not the same.
?? LXD can run VMs as well.
Oh wow today I learned. I thought it was just containers still. My apologies. Looks like it's been a thing since 5.0 lts.
And the best thing is that under Debian 12 you've LXD on the Debian repository, no need to install snaps and other crap. It is now a fully supported and solid thing.