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How is this easier than OSX-KVM? I can't imagine how proxmox is easier (or better for most use-cases I can think of) than qemu.

EDIT: Script just immediately tries to apt-get stuff. Nah. Oh lord and then helps itself to editting your apt sources. (All just to get git? How odd.) Before downloading another un-tagged/un-versioned link and excuting it. Nah nah nah.

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I don't like the untagged/unversioned script either but...

Proxmox is easy. To me Proxmox is not just a bit but much easier than "directly running QEMU". It's also got ZFS for free working out of the box. I'm not saying it's secure. I'm not saying it's giving you the utmost control. I'm saying Proxmox is the definition of easy.

Proxmox is QEMU, but with GUI and lot of infra stuff.

It’s much less of a pain when passthrough is involved, FWIW.

Why? How? Especially if Proxmox is just using qemu under the hood?

Because I can manage it in a relatively understandable web interface and not have to deal with a bunch of config files. It's also significantly easier than Hackintoshing the machine, which is what I did previously.

I see you're a nixos enthusiast, so I take it you enjoy config files. I just like having a machine I don't have to think about.

Lol but qemu doesn't use config files.

> I just like having a machine I don't have to think about.

After a crack about NixOS? Funny times tonight.

Just because you don't know what the hell you're talking about doesn't mean you have to take it out on me.

Virsh does.

Proxmox uses qemu for vm’s.

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