Vdi on Damien Dye's Blog https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/tags/vdi/ Recent content in Vdi on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0100 Zero Trust VDI Without the Cloud Bill — Proxmox, Intel Arc Pro and Cloudflare Access https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/networking/zero-trust-vdi-cloudflare-access/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/networking/zero-trust-vdi-cloudflare-access/ Part one: the architecture and the cost argument for replacing Azure Virtual Desktop with Proxmox, Intel Arc Pro SR-IOV and Cloudflare Access. On-prem OAuth for identity, browser-rendered RDP, a firewalled LXC tunnel on its own VLAN, KSM for memory density, and profiles on Ceph. The next post builds it. Licence-Free Windows VDI on Proxmox with an Intel Arc Pro B50 — and the Firmware Limit That Stopped It https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/proxmox/licence-free-vdi-intel-arc-pro-sriov/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/proxmox/licence-free-vdi-intel-arc-pro-sriov/ Intel's Arc Pro cards do SR-IOV natively, with no vGPU licence to buy — which makes a licence-free Windows VDI on Proxmox genuinely possible. The whole build on a B50, the Windows-first bootstrap problem, why the firmware caps it at two virtual functions, and how many each card in the B-series gives you.