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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.

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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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_wasbi@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

Ah okay, that makes more sense.

[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is wrong with using virtualbox?

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.