Subj : Re: Choice of hypervisors
To   : vorlon
From : acn
Date : Tue Jul 05 2022 15:56:00

Am 05.07.22 schrieb vorlon@21:1/195.1 in FSX_GEN:

Hallo vorlon,

v> Proxmox will run a windows guest just fine.

Just one note from me concerning Proxmox:

I thought about using it (and also had a test installation on one  
system) for my retro systems but had to find out that is isn't  
possible to mount virtual floppy disks to VMs.

While this is not a problem for most people nowerdays, it is one if  
you eg. want to install Novell NetWare, where you have to boot from a  
floppy disk for installation - and the license files are also on  
floppies.

That's why I'm sticking with ESXi, which also has the guest tools for  
the most OSes of all hypervisors. (You can still use the older guest  
utilities for NetWare on newer ESXi versions)

Oh, and ESXi also features a remote console as a real program on  
Linux, not only via a browser (compared to xcp-ng, which does not  
offer a management or remote console application for Linux, only for  
Windows...)

Regards,
Anna

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