I have a windows VM on my server running for this purpose specifically.
You can power the machines on, off, force off, reboot etc from the ACCE software. It also has the ‘Remote Desktop’ component which lets you connect to the IPMI video device. I can setup the system remotely from start to finish by mounting an ISO from ACCE, accessing the BIOS and booting to the mounted image and then installing an OS and going from there all without having physical access.
So Windows VM is on some other machine right? Because later you wrote …
Without the RTL8117 set to remote single-display then when WIndows boots you have to use RDP to access the machine since the display from the onboard video is disabled
… so this refers to windows on Asus? You have windows VM on some other machine to access the IPMI and Windows machine as host on ASUS motherboard. But host doesnt have to be windows right?
One more question. Can you choose boot device in UEFI/IPMI? In my current setup i have proxmox on one disk and windows 10 (for games) on other disk. My plan is to set proxmox as default (to run it when im remotely) and Windows on second drive to use it when im directly use computer. Im not going to do gpu passthrough so I would be able to leave IPMI on main card (default).
So can you guys recommend this motherboard as kind of alternative to IPMI? I havent seen any AM4/TR4 motherboards with remote control beside of mentioned Asrocks which sadly are not available in my country.