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I’ve done a little bit of searching but everything that comes up is about moving vm to vm hosts. I am currently running PiHole and Tailscale on a Pi Zero W 1.1 but it’s hammering the CPU (I assume Tailscale). I also have an always-on Windows Optiplex 3070 that’s running HomeAssistant on a VMWare vm. I found a $65 Optiplex 3040 that I’m planning to install Linux on and merge the Zero W and the VM to the Linux box but would like some guidance on whether it’s possible to move the VM to a boot drive. I’m not too concerned about losing the PiHole setup. I just wiped everything and started fresh yesterday (in an attempt to solve the CPU issue).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Now this is something I’m interested in! I think I’m going to pick up that 3040 to set up and play around with since it’s so cheap. The i5-6500 should handle it well enough, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yep, Proxmox itself is very light on resources, so most is available for the VMs / containers.

Just another point... I've had some issues with Dell BIOS not respecting the Power On after power loss settings - usually a BIOS upgrade solves that and 99% of Dells still have "just 1 more" update on the website...

I'd also recommend installing Wake on LAN on that Pi too... then if you VPN in from outside you can SSH into the Pi and power on other things that "accidentally" got shutdown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Oh I didn’t know about this either. Thanks! About to set that up right now!