cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/111443
What do you use, prefer?
I have mostly used KVM with qemu, but I want to try out other things. I have heard of proxmox and all kinds of cool management things, what’s a solid setup that supports easy backups and such things?
KVM and qemu is solid and pretty easy to understand. Basic control of the VMs can be done with virt-manager, which is a basic but solid tool.
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It depends. Are you talking about VMs you will be using on your desktop or on a headless server?
Proxmox is great for server management but the way it handles storage puts off a lot of new users and honestly still drives me nuts. For example the native zfs webmanagement doesn’t give you any options for dataset management, compression, or encryption options. If you want to configure that you’ll have to do it through the terminal or with another tool like cockpit zfs manager (which has been discontinued by the dev). Cockpit also has a virtual machine management plugin, but in my experience cockpit leaks memory which causes a bunch of other issues.
If you’re talking about desktop, virt-manager is pretty great. Never really found any reason to look for alternatives. You could also technically install xorg on proxmox just like any other linux package but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Headless server is what I am doing
Definitely try proxmox.
Thanks I will!
Uhm, why not containers? VMs are just a waste of resources for 99% of home servers IMHO.
with docker?
Yes or Podman.