HA in Proxmox with other VMs

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Apologies if this is not strictly a Home Assistant question, but you guys are all so knowledgable, I’m sure many of you will have thoughts on this.

My HA server is currently running in a Proxmox 8 VM on a Lenovo M73 Tiny mini PC with an i5-4570T and 16GB of RAM. The Home Assistant VM is using 2 CPU cores and 8GB of RAM.

Would there be enough left to run another VM with a media server such as Plex or Jellyfin or would an LXC be better on the same machine? It would only need to handle a max of 2 media streams.

The plan is to rip all our DVD box sets into a media server and I don’t want to start doing that until I have a server capable of hosting.

I also have a Pi4 8GB that was my first Home Assistant server, but when I moved to the Tiny mini PC I cloned the MAC address of the Pi and gave it to the Tiny mini. So I’d need to give the Pi4 a new MAC address, which, from what I can make out, is quite a complex operation.

Any thoughts gratefully received, thanks.

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Hi

LXC is lighter on hardware resources than VM.
My Jellyfin LXC in proxmox is running smooth and even use GPU acceleration.

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That’s good to know. I’d read somewhere that there were issues with Proxmox and GPU acceleration, or maybe I misread that?

Have you got a good guide to installing Jellyfin in an LXC, or is there one on the Jellyfin website?

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I have an HP t630 thin client, running proxmox. It has HAOS, PiHole, openmediavaullt with dlna server, Heimdall and a uinfi controller. It has 16meg of ram and has been running this faultlessly for a couple of years now. It even sometimes runs up a quick test vm or container sometimes. So yours should be fine.

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