I didn’t expect one of my more entertaining gaming experiments this year to start inside Proxmox. Usually, when I spin up a VM, I’m thinking about services, testing, or something useful for my home lab. I’m not expecting to pass through a GPU, boot Windows 11, and end up benchmarking Cyberpunk 2077 on a mini PC. Yet that’s exactly what happened, and the result was a lot better than I had any right to expect.