Proxmox's web UI is a pile of inaccessible, but I'm super pleased with the command line so far. Yesterday I spun up a small virtual server for Audiobookshelf, and had the whole thing up and running in my network and integrated with backups in about 10 minutes. Next I need a couple small Windows VMs for CI which, well, at least I'll only have to set those up once and clone them, so there's that silver lining.
@nolan I'm curious to hear more about your experience with Proxmox. I've thought of using it as a virtualization solution, but was worried about the inaccessible UI. How easy is it to e.g create a Windows VM and connect to it with audio?
- Download a Windows installation ISO and upload it to the server.
- Import it into the local list of VM templates/ISOs, probably using some incantation of the
pveam
tool. - Run an initial
qm create ...
incantation, followed by a few runs ofqm set ...
. These essentially build up a human-readable and editable config file somewhere in /etc/pve. - Run
qm start ...
. Probably fail, but since theqm set
incantations update a config file, I don't have to sling around long qemu_kvm command lines. I can just individually tweak settings, with built-in sanity-checks, and restart the VM until it runs.
@nolan That sounds promising. I see that there are also Terraform providers and probably Ansible modules for Proxmox which could hopefully make this easier.
@nolan Curious about audiobookshelf. What is it and how’s it work.
The accessibility story isn't super great right now, but it's usable, and I'll probably find time to fix some of the rougher edges in the next few weeks.
https://audiobookshelf.org
@nolan Ah I found it. Can it be put on a nas without much trouble?
@nolan @ner You might also find https://github.com/izderadicka/audioserve interesting. Admittedly I haven’t tried audio bookshelf, but this is a very similar concept and all entirely web based. The dev is also very responsive to accessibility suggestions and the UI now works great on both desktop and mobile screen readers.
Anyway, not making a value judgment as I haven't even used this one for long enough to decide to keep it. 😀 It does a little more than serve up directories, though.
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@nolan I forgot to ask, what server are you using to install Proxmox onto? And how was the process of installing Proxmox onto that hardware? I assume that initial installation wouldn't be accessible