Hi, I am probably a little bit late to the party at this point, but here are my thoughts. As far as Linux accessibility goes I don’t have much experience when it comes to containers, but I think just about any distribution would do as containers are ran at the os level so it is up to the os the manage them unless you are dealing with some third party cloud management engine. For local based home lab use the main options are Kvm or Xen that are really accessible. Later versions of Vmware Esxi with management tools may be though. Tom From: Al Puzzuoli <alpuzz@gmail.com> Thanks, I’ll start with KVM. I believe Proxmox is basically a web layer for KVM anyway so best to gain at least some familiarity with KVM before ever touching Proxmox I think. I’m looking to run a mix of containers and virtual machines. I’ll likely end up containerizing many services such as Pihole and plex, but I’m not sure it makes sense to containerize other things, such as Windows domain controllers, etc. From: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> On 9/7/23 10:31, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
Have you considered running KVM under Debian?
If you run Qemu/KVM, you can have text console access to the guest operating system. This worked when I last tried it, admittedly a number of years ago. You could also run prebuilt images designed for use in a virtual machine instead of starting with an ISO 9660 file and using an operating system installer. Much of the attention is shifting away from virtual machines these days and toward Linux containers instead. I am assuming in my reply that you actually want a virtual machine for some reason, but if what you really need is a container, then there should be fewer accessibility issues and less resource consumption. (The kernel is shared between the host operating system and the containers, but the libraries and running programs aren't.) For containers, you would be best advised to look at Podman, Docker, etc. I haven't had experience with these tools, so I can't offer much by way of detail. |