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I'm sitting here thinking about projects, wishing I could fire up a new VM and install Debian while I sit here on the couch. Then I would have a fresh VM ready to go after I recover from sitting on the couch.

Unfortunately the web GUI is not very mobile friendly. Or maybe it is and I just suck at it.

I realize I could have templates and stuff ready to go, but that would require foresight.

And I am just a guy sitting on a couch.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Setup a virtual desktop on your server and RDP into it to access the web interface. Here is me doing that using my cat as a stand lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm here to collect your cat tax.

Also, for us non-Windows folks, just set up a VNC server and do the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thank you, you may proceed!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is an iOS app I discovered yesterday called ProxMate, and it seems pretty nice!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Most excellent! 🤩

Instant Lifetime Purchase! 👌🏻

Thank you!!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Step 1: get a cat

Step 2: ???

Profit!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Step 0: pile of raw meat in backyard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Kasmweb in a docker with a FF workspace is how I do it, but this one looks like a RDP session to a Windows box/VM.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can just use remote desktop into Windows. I used to have a headless PC setup with a GPU so that my wife could play Sims 4 over the network on her ancient laptop from the couch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It sounds like you are getting decent performance but if you aren't try sunshine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are a few ways. What does your setup look like?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's really simple. Hardly use it for any heavy lifting.

I use Proxmox to play with VMs and Open Media Vault on top to be my NAS.

I've done RDP, but figured that it could only be done on desktop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I would get a GPU for VFIO and then setup sunshine for streaming. Sunshine won't work well over really slow connections or connections with high latency but it will allow for a good gaming experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Should I get a GPU that supports vGPUs or you mean like a GPU passthrough to the VM?

Everything is wired in my house so thankfully it's pretty fast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unless you want multiple VMs to share a GPU passthough is fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How can a consumer GPu be used across multiple VMs?

Sorry if it's a dumb question. I've never messed with GPUs. 90% of the things I do is headless and through CLI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I have no idea to be perfectly honest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Under hardware > display there is an option for VirtiO-GPU and VirGL-GPU. I'm not super knowledgeable but I think these options allows VMs to make system calls to the GPU. I put an ancient Quadro in my server and my RDP sessions were noticeably better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This is fantastic. Thank you. I'll probably get a low powered quadro then.

Or maybe is Radeon Pro better?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

My GPU is quite literally 15 or 16 years old (I pulled it out of an old server that was being trashed). If you aren't going to do heavy graphical work and just want to spruce up your desktop performance then really anything is probably fine.

I think both these options require downloading additional libraries on your Proxmox host to work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Step 1: enable Remote Desktop in Windows

Step 2: download a Remote Desktop app from app store

Step 3: use the app to login to the Windows box

Step 4: profit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago