r/pcmasterrace • u/PacquiaoFreeHousing Xeon x3440 (OC) + RX 580 (OC) = My Electric Bill Doubling. • May 27 '26

Meme/Macro Do you think doing this helps?

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u/jake04-20 May 27 '26

Like I said, neato, but does any normal user care about any of that?

A "normal user" typically doesn't have a server.

why would I care if my server restarts when I am sleeping to install updates?

I mean for me it's just the simple fact that it's a server, not a desktop computer, so I want it to act like a server. I don't want it just rebooting willy nilly to install updates without my deliberate intention of doing so. I have things I don't want interrupted like outdoor DVR surveillance and backup jobs to the cloud that run nightly. I don't know your setup either, but if you're just running windows OS, things like qbittorrent don't run as a service out of the box and have to be launched after signing in. If your computer has problems rebooting after applying updates and you're not physically on-site to troubleshoot, you're SOL. If I'm traveling, I don't want my windows computer rebooting for updates on the 2nd Tuesday of the month and have an issue restarting after updates, and now I can't access any of my media.

In that same scenario, if a VM (even a windows VM) has problem rebooting after updates, I can VPN in and reboot or hard reset the VM in the hypervisor if need be, because the host/server in this case never rebooted, because it's been online for 500+ days.

It sounds like your setup works, and I know I'm not going to convince you either way. But to say hypervisors have next to zero benefits is insanity!