On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:50:09 -0600
<crichmon@???> wrote:

> This question isn't exactly Devuan related, but.
> In furtherance of my son's education (and my escape from Windows), I'm
> installing a full
> devuan_daedalus_5.0.1_amd64_desktop.iso in a VM in proxmox. Installation
> went OK
> except for a failure when I included Web Server in the Software Install step
> (took a couple of tries to figure that out).
>
> I've zero familiarity with modern Linux desktops and picked whatever was at
> the top of the list.
> Not the current problem, but the point is to find out what I can run in
> Wine.
Hi,
Take a look at https://appdb.winehq.org/

> From the VM config, I picked VirtIO-GPU for display. The VM boots OK, but
> within the proxmox
> Console view. My question is; how do I boot this so that I get a full KVM
> interface. Meaning; the
> VM controls the KVM bits? To complicate the question, I've got several
> computers hooked to
> a KVM switch, including this proxmox host. When I switch to that port, I
> get the proxmox login,
> in this case, while the VM isn't running.
>
> Up to this point, I've started a VNC server and run a bunch of xterms in
> twm and been happy
> using a VNC client in Windows. Any suggestions are welcome.

Just out of curiosity why did you choose the most complicated route by using proxmox?
I think that putting a spare HDD/SDD in your son's windows client pc and installing
Devuan there in dual boot mode would have been an easier way and probably
more satisfying. Even my mother who is 80 years old once her pc was correctly setup
and fine tuned with Debian could use it without problem.

Ciao,
Tito

> Thx, Chris