No reasons not to. Strfry can run in LXC and can run node in VM. 

 I think I just assumed a debate about bare-metal vs virtualization. 

 Difference is probably 1-2% 

 I've been thinking of the same setup. Hoping someone chimes in with experience.  

 I am looking as well for some experience here around. #proxmox or #qubesos on my main home machine... 

 I run #QubesOS on my desktop and #Proxmox on my servers. If you are only going to have one, I would go with Qubes. Proxmox doesn't come with a GUI and is really meant to be interacted with from another computer. Meanwhile, Qubes makes securely shuffling data around between VMs much easier.

On the flip side, if you can have both, Proxmox has easier comfiguration for getting traffic from the internet into the VM. This can be done in Qubes as well, but they kinda designed the system to prevent the internet from being able to directly get to a VM (other than the sys-net qube).

Hope this helps. 

 Thanks for the infos. Proxmox is basically debian, I mean, installing KDE or so shouldn't be a problem. Next weekend I'll try at first the proxmox setup, especially interested in performance of the VMs, when using in browser of the same host. And  most probably, it will not be satisfying for a desktop computer setup, so can install qubesos.
Last time I tried QubesOS, several years ago, I was basically using one vm 99% of the time. Do you use the proposed vms? I suppose networking setup doesn't require a rocket science degree... 

 It’s been years since I tested Proxmoxx, but then again I got started with  virtualization when WMVare released their free beta in 99 or so :-)

Using QubesOS to fight this total war with powers that should never have been daily, so happy to find fellow users & of course even better if I can help out with anything! 

 @Kieran weren''t you doing this a month ago or am I dreaming? 

 Works just fine with ministry of nodes node box setup from youtube in a vm. Not sure about downsides or relay.  

 I plan on doing this in the near future, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

A Proxmox VM seems like the ideal solution.

- Self hosted
- Real VM (not just a container)
- Decent network options

When I set this up, I'm likely to write an Ansible playbook to automate setting it up. I'll publish that. If you want to encourage me to do it sooner, shoot me some coin. 😉

For those whoare not familiar with Ansible, it is great! Once the playbook is written, it will run all the commands for you so you can spin up as many nodes as you want.

And you can (and if it's holding your money, you should) review each step of the playbook before running it to personally verify everything is legit. 

 And if someone else beats me to this, please ping me to let me know!

I'm also generally willing to help anyone with pretty much any self-hosted anything. I may or may not have time to write the code to automate things, but if you want to ask about configurations, errors that don't make sense or anything else, ask away. 

 I want to for sure but need a lot more practice first with proxmox  

 I'm in the process of building a full node on Proxmox. What do you think about MyNode? 

 I run Raspiblitz lightning node on proxmox, has worked well. Simply followed this tutorial: https://cercatrova.blog/en/install-raspiblitz-on-proxmox/