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Proxmox is an entire distro just for running virtual machines, with a web UI. Virt-manager is a program you install on a normal machine
It's really just Debian with more packages preinstalled, but yeah, the idea is that you have an OS that has the primary purpose of virtualizing other machines.
And a custom kernel with ZFS support
Oh right, they ship a modified kernel, didn't think of this. I also didn't know about the zfs thing, my homelab uses btrfs.
I'm also using btrfs, but I originally wanted ZFS before seeing that it was only available through FUSE on my distro.
That's why I even noticed ZFS was one of the features of Proxmox :)