Thanks for your video showcase back then, it really helped the project get the initial traction.

The project was definitely rough around the edges back then. It held together somewhat but I would say it was around a 50/50 chance that it would work as expected for a new user. I think that has been the biggest improvement since then, the reliability and handling of edge cases so that the vast majority of users can now use it as they expect without issues. That was made possible with the help of the community which reported and tested all kinds of things I could not have done on my own. Having a community running a diverse set of systems helps out development immensely.

In terms of any authentication, XPipe doesn’t implement anything by itself. It will just delegates to your local SSH client. If you can set that up with your ssh client so that you can successfully connect from the command line, it should also work in XPipe.

Alright I guess that approach works.

But installing it locally should be much easier. It can also access connections through your VM via ssh from there.

It should also work in a graphical VM, but I assume that you have your tools installed on your desktop. E.g. your preferred terminal or editor since you only have a console in your VM via ssh.

If you install XPipe on your desktop, it can connect to the VM from there and through the VM also connect to all your other servers as a gateway.

It’s intended to be installed on your local desktop because it integrates with your installed programs like your system shell, text editor, terminal, etc. This would not be possible if it would be installed in a container or VM. I can understand some concerns about installing software on you local machine, but this is a case where creating an isolated container for an application would not make sense.

That is great to hear!

Alright, I will have to look into whether it is possible to differentiate between normal and FIPS here

How large is your homelab cluster? The current restriction of only one Proxmox node is mainly there because in practice I don’t think it would be possible to distinguish between personal use and commercial use. Because many companies also run a cluster with multiple nodes without the enterprise repository as that is not really needed.

The display issue is interesting because I was not aware of that before. I have a few Linux systems with a gnome DE, but none of these are using nvidia hardware acceleration. I can definitely look into finding the cause for this if you want, but it’s only really worth it for you to spend some time on this if you actually want to keep using XPipe. If the current restrictions are a dealbreaker for you, then I understand that.

I think a screenshot of how exactly it looks for you would already be a good starting point for me.

I guess that depends on what you consider basic homelab functions. As I mentioned, I know that that any commercialization model is not going to be perfect but I try to allow for as much free usage as reasonably possible.

About the text scaling, I will have to look into that. I know that some desktop environments are weird with their display scaling and that it is not getting rendered properly there.

Yes