Tag: virtualization

Two years after Canonical's LXD CLA grab, Incus is shipping in Debian/Fedora/NixOS. Here's what changed, what works, and when to use it.

virt-manager is fine, but real homelab automation lives on the command line. virt-install, virsh, cloud-init, provision VMs in seconds, not click-by-click.

VM-backed Linux dev environments on macOS/Linux, Lima vs Multipass compared on speed, container support, and resource use.

Learn VLAN basics for your home lab: 802.1Q tagging, trunk vs access ports, managed switch setup, and pfSense VLAN configuration to isolate IoT, guests, and your NAS.

Your VM's clock is off by minutes, NTP says it's synced, yet the system keeps drifting. Here's why the hypervisor is the real culprit, and how to fix it.

Proxmox vs XCP-ng compared for homelabbers: KVM vs Xen, ZFS support, web UI vs Xen Orchestra, backups, and which free hypervisor fits your spare rack server.

Containers share the kernel; VMs have their own. Understand the isolation trade-offs, overhead differences, and when to use which.

Squeeze more out of Proxmox VE, CPU pinning, memory ballooning, IO threads, virtio drivers, and storage tuning for faster VMs.

LXC/LXD runs full Linux environments in lightweight containers, faster to spin up than VMs and perfect for home lab service isolation.

Upload an ISO to Proxmox three ways: web UI, wget onto the node, or SCP. Where ISOs live, why browser uploads stall, and how to fix storage with no ISO option.