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Comment by dijit | Hacker News Reader

At the risk of sounding negative… Is there a value to do this?

I mean, its interesting that you can, but I’m working the opposite way, I run Proxmox so that I can run ChromeOS as my main working OS.

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Testing. Installing ChromeOS on a bare-metal machine and then switching back if you dislike it can be a bit of a hassle.

Why can you not install ChromeOS Flex directly on your hardware?

What I mean is that I run proxmox predominantly so I don’t have to run Windows on my hardware.

Isn't that what this post is about? Creating a ChromeOS Flex VM that can then run in Proxmox?

Proxmox is generally run in a client-server arrangement where Proxmox and its VMs are on a server somewhere and users connect from a lightweight (probably browser) client. So the idea is that the device you use directly is a Chromebook acting as essentially a thin client, and then your real work happens in VMs on proxmox. Notably, those VMs can include Windows while containing it and not having to deal with Windows on hardware. (And I mean yes you could have a Chromebook thin client connecting to a server running a different instance of ChromeOS... and I can see ways for that to be useful, even... but that's not the idea being espoused here.)

How do you run Proxmox on ChromeOS?

I don’t. I run proxmox on my other laptop so I can use chromeos and manage vms via the http interface. :)

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