As a homelabber, I finally got around to installing it a few months back. I do have some wish list items that seem like common sense things that have been in the works for years, but I do love it compared to the horror of running everything from my main desktop and just never turning it off.
Sure, they have a nag screen if you don’t do their corporate update subscription, and you need to manually run a Linux command to get rid of it. You have to manually go look for the update URL to do updates in-band and configure it. After updating the upgrade will sometimes not change the UI to show the update.
By default, an Ubuntu VM will be selected with a GPU or CPU type that prevents it from booting.
It’s a million little small things but it adds up and you sigh and long for ESX just a bit more every time, because you can unfortunately really tell the design difference between enthusiasts and people who make serious IT products
All they have to do is little fixes to make things be smooth but they don’t and it’s annoying sometimes
Yeah I never said it wasn’t good or didn’t work. It’s just held back from being fantastic by a bunch of stupid design decisions that from what I’ve heard are based on dev feelings instead of how the product is actually used
I’ve been pretty impressed with proxmox so far. Just saying.
As a homelabber, I finally got around to installing it a few months back. I do have some wish list items that seem like common sense things that have been in the works for years, but I do love it compared to the horror of running everything from my main desktop and just never turning it off.
Apparently according to the forums there are some common sense things that they should have been doing for years and are intentionally not doing.
Kinda makes sense, it technically works but you’ll think about how much less teeth pulling you had to do in ESX all the time. I know I did
Are there any examples you can point me to for this? I’ve always found esxi the “teeth pulling” one and would like to see some arguments otherwise.
Sure, they have a nag screen if you don’t do their corporate update subscription, and you need to manually run a Linux command to get rid of it. You have to manually go look for the update URL to do updates in-band and configure it. After updating the upgrade will sometimes not change the UI to show the update.
By default, an Ubuntu VM will be selected with a GPU or CPU type that prevents it from booting.
It’s a million little small things but it adds up and you sigh and long for ESX just a bit more every time, because you can unfortunately really tell the design difference between enthusiasts and people who make serious IT products
All they have to do is little fixes to make things be smooth but they don’t and it’s annoying sometimes
The nag screen only happens without a subscription.
I’m pretty sure the no-subscription repo can be enabled with a few clicks in the UI. I haven’t experienced any issues with updates.
I haven’t seen it misconfigure Ubuntu VMs either, but maybe I haven’t tried one.
All in all, if those are your only complaints, it sounds pretty solid to me.
Yeah I never said it wasn’t good or didn’t work. It’s just held back from being fantastic by a bunch of stupid design decisions that from what I’ve heard are based on dev feelings instead of how the product is actually used
Thanks for your candor. Not sure I agree with these issues… but I guess that’s why I’ve never really had a problem with Proxmox.
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I’m using Proxmox, but I’ve read great things about incus. Any thoughts?
It’s designed for container orchestration, I think. I tried setting up a regular VM and it wasn’t smooth.