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Benefits of Proxmox VE vs. libvirt/KVM? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by kitanokikori@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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Are there any benefits of running Proxmox and virtualizing everything, vs having a host OS and running Docker and libvirt to host VMs for services that need it? I know that Proxmox does some storage management etc, but it seems like I could get everything it does with a well-managed host OS + ZFS/btrfs and using virtualization tools

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[–] FateOfNations@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Running Home Assistant OS in a virtual machine using the provided VM images is a supported configuration.

From ADR-0015: Installation Method: Home Assistant OS:

Supported Hypervisors

The Home Assistant Operating System can be run on a Hypervisor and thus be run as a virtual machine. The following Hypervisors are supported:

KVM/QEMU

VirtualBox

VMWare

Xen

We will provide documentation for the following systems build on top of these technologies:

Proxmox (KVM/QEMU based)

Unraid (KVM/QEMU based)

VirtualBox

VMWare

[–] Cylian91460@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Supported != To recommend