Let me tell you a little story... haha. I am a VMware admin of thousands of VMs by day. So, I know very well what is needed to run lots of VMs. I have 30+ running at home sometimes.
If you install OMV 6.x, the proxmox kernel using the kernel plugin, and the kvm plugin, you end up with the proxmox 5.19 kernel, Debian 11 userland, and KVM VMs.
If you install Proxmox 7.x, you end up with the proxmox 5.15 kernel, Debian 11 userland, and KVM VMs.
Proxmox is not anymore of a dedicated hypervisor than OMV+kvm plugin. I actually converted my proxmox 4.x or 5.x install into OMV because they are so close.
I even wrote a script that will very easily create a mac VM for the kvm plugin. Just change the variables at the top to get the right VM details.
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Hello
I'm right now stuck with OMV 5, and my initial idea until i read your post, was to change everything. Install proxmox, install omv in a VM and passtrought all my disks. I know this works, but, loose the SMART that monitors my disks and that is important. The other thing that i want was to have a dedicated vm to put my docker containers, right now i have it natively on my omv5 and wrks great. But if i create a vm and put all my docker images on it i will be stuck again, end road for me. If my disks are on the OMV it will be hard to access them.
So i'm a little bit lost here.
After reading your post, i like the idea, but a serious question come up, since the oldest versions of OMV. Do i need to pass for all this when update to a major release. Because belive me, its not a straighforward process and i end up always on installing all from the beginning.
Another issue is with VM, i have some, like 15 inside OMV, and i took a whole week to make them work, because i use vms with a static lan ip of my lan network, gosh i read so much files to make this thinkg work, it was a pain in the ass, and i now when i update this release all that may be gone.
So gain i'm a little bit lost on what to do.
Some advice ppl will be great.
Regard everyone