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Why proxmox and not simply using libvirt? I am very happy with kvm, but always looking to make my life better.

Proxmox will no doubt make your life better: very robust tools already there, no need to re-invent the wheel

Wondering the same. Also a libvirt and virsh user here, and pretty happy using commands such as `virsh snapshot-create ...`. I've used VMWare ESXi in the distant past, and from the screenshots it looks like Proxmox is maybe inspired by VMWare? So maybe a more polished and integrated GUI based experience than libvirt? Also looks like Proxmox supports containers in addition to virtual machines. Also I see from other comments that there's some features to migrate VMs between hosts, which would be a much more manual effort with libvirt.

Yeah, that’s basically it, it’s an ESXi style management UI that just makes everything really easy. In our little setup I used libvirt on an old server, Proxmox on the new one, and now I’ll probably shift the old server too to Proxmox due to the clustering (for example, you log onto one machine and can manage them all).

ZFS support that just works is really nice too. They also have a backup solution I’d like to check out but haven’t yet.

Good GUIs for great software are really compelling.

I'm a virsh/kvm user myself, but I admit I'd probably leverage more features of the platform if the interface was easier to use.

I've had like 75% success on throwing XML files at ChatGPT and telling it what I want to do for weird things like passthrough or pinning. It gets me most of the way there. That is not a compelling user interface as is. :)

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