I recently found myself in a common homelab dilemma: I needed a dedicated machine for a jumphost and remote development environment, but all my spare hardware was already tied up with my Proxmox server running other services. So, I decided to leverage my existing Proxmox setup and install Omakub inside a virtual machine.

Omakub, based on Ubuntu, provides a clean and efficient workspace, perfect for keeping my main PC clutter-free while still having a powerful Linux environment at my fingertips. This guide will walk you through setting up a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 VM in Proxmox and then installing Omakub.

So, I found this old iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) lying around with pretty decent specs. I'm thinking of turning it into my dedicated x86 playground since my main machine is an M1 MacBook. First thing's first: getting Qemu and Virt-manager up and running for some virtual machine action. Yeah, I know there are other VM solutions like VMware or VirtualBox, but I want to stay familiar with what's common in enterprise environments (even if nobody's running macOS in production, haha!).

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