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i use it host a single vm that runs a a mail, xmpp and matrix server

i thought there might not be a point installing a dedicated hypervisor os for a single vm but just being able to do automatic backups to my network drive and seamlessly restore that to any kind of hardware without faffing about with clonezilla and grub makes it worth it alone

i still have 1gb of ram left to allocate for something else

I have a negative opinion of both proxmox and libvirt, as they're basically frontends to QEMU and sysfs commands.

If I was in charge of running VMs for a datacenter it would just be shell scripts and QEMU.

>>2861
what's wrong with frontends and actually having an all encompassing nice to use web gui

>>2865
Bloat, it's like a Rube Goldberg machine instead of just making toast.

Libvirt is a huge codebase that wraps QEMU commands into XML spaghetti and echos some stuff into sysfs, so you can… click buttons and menus? Proxmox is also a gigantic codebase (perl/js). My question is what problems are they even solving?

>>2866
the problem of having a gui?
you can use that argument for literally everything

why are you using a graphical browser or a windowing system just do everything from the terminal bro it's bloat

>>2867
There's stuff that needs a GUI or benefits from it.

Then there's stuff that doesn't benefit, or even makes things worse.

In this case, it actually makes things worse. Takes a small QEMU command and adds on a problematic layer.

qemu-system-x86_64 \
-nodefaults \
-machine q35,accel=kvm \
-cpu host,+topoext \
-smp 12 \
-m 6G \
-nic user,model=virtio \
-display gtk,gl=on,full-screen=on \
-device virtio-gpu-gl,blob=true,hostmem=4G,venus=true \
-device virtio-tablet \
-audio driver=pipewire,model=hda \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly=on,file=/usr/share/edk2/x64/OVMF_CODE.4m.fd \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=arch.fd \
-drive if=virtio,discard=on,file=arch.qcow2 \

>>2868
yeah i think i'll keep my buttons