noVNC VS Proxmox

Compare noVNC vs Proxmox and see what are their differences.

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noVNC Proxmox
13 59
10,919 9,799
1.8% -
7.6 9.9
6 days ago 4 days ago
JavaScript Shell
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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noVNC

Posts with mentions or reviews of noVNC. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-16.
  • Remote connect tool
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 16 Apr 2023
    I setup tigervnc server on both my linux and windows machinces , then use websockify and noVNC to access them whenever i want through my web browser. you can follow readme of novnc here. If other pcs are on a seperate network or behind a NAT i suggest using frp hosted on a vps (That is what i did) .
  • Web browser remote desktop...?
    2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 7 Mar 2023
  • how to run Kali linux in-browser
    1 project | /r/Kalilinux | 5 Jan 2023
  • How does pwnbox work?
    1 project | /r/hackthebox | 22 Nov 2022
    The rfb.js can be found on the official noVNC Repo and the file HTB uses includes the appropriate credit, so they're definitely not trying to seal credit or anything (RFP is the protocol behind VNC). Most interestingly is how well the flow is between the browser session and the normal host desktop; mostly how seamless copy/paste is. NoVNC has a tab on the left that handles all the config and controls, as well as how it does copy/paste. There's some snazzy lines in vnc.min.js that take care of it, but I'll leave that dissection as an exercise to the reader (or if y'all want, I can dive into that one as well).
  • Looking for Proxmox inspiration (more details in comment)
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 22 Sep 2022
    How about noVNC, MeshCentral, or myrtille?
  • Alternatives to Remote Desktop
    3 projects | /r/degoogle | 6 May 2022
    noVNC https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/ works really well even in limited setup (through proxies, VPN, no client install env, etc). Pretty easy to setup on Linux machines, elsewhere I don't know.
  • Is there a Wayland-friendly method of controlling my PC with my phone?
    3 projects | /r/swaywm | 10 Apr 2022
    I use wayvnc (VNC server for wl-roots based WMs) together with novnc (VNC client which allows web connections via browser). both would run on the computer. This allows any device with a decent browser to control the computer.
  • noVNC and require.js
    1 project | /r/JavaScriptHelp | 23 Mar 2022
    git clone https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/ cd noVNC npm update node ./utils/use_require.js --as amd --clean
  • Introducing Rainway: Interactive App Streaming for Everyone
    2 projects | /r/programming | 25 Jan 2022
    I wonder how this compares to NoVNC, which is an opensource browser based VNC
  • Why HTTP streaming upload matters on Web browser
    4 projects | dev.to | 10 Nov 2021
    Here is VNC over HTTP. VNC is for remote control. VNC client is complete in web browser powered by noVNC project. The application below also provides E2E encryption using openssl aes-256-ctr-command-compatible way which encrypts streamingly.

Proxmox

Posts with mentions or reviews of Proxmox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.
  • LXC or Portainer for media server
    1 project | /r/Proxmox | 7 Dec 2023
    There's no one right way to do this. For me, I focused on isolation and containment. So I used LXCs for everything with Plex as the only Privileged container. All other *arrs remained unprivileged. My data resides on a NAS elsewhere in my network so I had to set up SMB sharing to all the LXCs and as you'll find out, that becomes less than intuitive. I wrote a guide here that details how I configured everything.
  • Moving Plex off Synology NAS. unRAID + Docker? Linux? TrueNAS?
    2 projects | /r/PleX | 7 Dec 2023
    I used the lxc script from tteck to set up a new plex installation in a lxc. https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox Installed nfs-common and updated /etc/fstab so I mounted all the media shares from my synology.
  • Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts – Scripts for Streamlining Your Homelab with Proxmox
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2023
    The actual scripts: https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox

    After poking at a couple of these, they seem like they're 50% shiny packaging and 50% one-liner bash commands.

  • Beginner: Proxmox + Jellyfin + TrueNas
    1 project | /r/HomeServer | 4 Oct 2023
    Then, I tried installing Jellyfin using scripts. That went better than my previous attempt. However, I still could not get the mounted storage to appear on Jellyfin UI. I googled the issue and experimented with several solutions like mounting the storage on the Proxmox server. When I added a new library (using ip), Jellyfin started scanning. it seems like the Jellyfin is doing something because the CPU was running up to ~70%.so, I left it overnight. When I checked in the morning, I still don’t see any videos on Jellyfin UI. I checked the logs and I saw that it threw access denied error to a /proc/, but nothing why it couldn’t display files on the mounted storage. My current setup only has a built in GPU, 1 x 1TB SSD (im looking to add more storage later on) and the mounted storage only has 25 videos ~200-500 MB.
  • Selfhosted VPN advice for Homelab Access
    3 projects | /r/homelab | 10 Jul 2023
    The HA VM took about five minutes, all created by using this script: bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/main/vm/haos-vm.sh)"
  • nginx proxy manager.....driving me insane
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 7 Jul 2023
    I had an acl issues configuration using NPM on docker ( proxmox > LXC > Docker > NPM) when using IPV6. So now I'm using lxc on unprivileged LXC using this script. https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox
  • Tailscale, NGINX proxy manager and Cloudflare for 2 or 3 subnets
    1 project | /r/Tailscale | 11 Jun 2023
    my major issue: I tried to install tailscale on nextcloudpi and it didn't work, even tried to use this command line: bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/main/misc/add-tailscale-lxc.sh)" -s 106 also didnt work for with nextcloudpi. But Tailscale installed perfectly on NPM.
  • Tplink omada software
    1 project | /r/TPLink_Omada | 8 Jun 2023
    I set up on proxmox with the help of this. https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox
  • Docker on proxmox?
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 21 May 2023
    This github repo is a great place to start with LXCs https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox
  • Export Docker Containers from Unraid?
    1 project | /r/unRAID | 19 May 2023
    bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/main/ct/scrypted.sh)"

What are some alternatives?

When comparing noVNC and Proxmox you can also consider the following projects:

Tiger VNC - High performance, multi-platform VNC client and server

vaultwarden - Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs

docker-guacamole - A self-contained guacamole docker container for x64 and ARM. Remotely connect over SSH, RDP or VNC using HTML5.

cockpit-file-sharing - A Cockpit plugin to easily manage samba and NFS file sharing.

guacamole-client - Mirror of Apache Guacamole Client

kubevirt - Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.

xterm.js - A terminal for the web

gravity-sync - 💫 The easy way to synchronize the DNS configuration of two Pi-hole 5.x instances.

wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors

homer - A very simple static homepage for your server.

websockify - Websockify is a WebSocket to TCP proxy/bridge. This allows a browser to connect to any application/server/service.

DietPi - Lightweight justice for your single-board computer!