I have Proxmox VE OS installed on two connected desktops in my apartment, I also have the ability to VPN into apartment router remotely and operate as if I where physically there.

The desktop app I want to run is AlfaBooks, they’re like a better version of Calibre, only they cost like $40.00 for one time fee, which I am not opposed to. It also comes with their web server app, which acts like a Calibre Content Server.

However in the future, I may find othet desktop apps that I’d like to run on Proxmox without a VM in the middle.

Any ideas?

  • Well, there’s WINE, but it’s relatively hit or miss, whether specific applications will work in it.

    Containers can’t work conceptually, because they use the kernel of your host system and a Windows application expects a Windows kernel (or at least an interface like WINE, which answers its calls).

    Theoretically, there’s also the option of a VM with ReactOS, but my impressions has been that it works less often than WINE.