Subj : Arch btw
To   : Tiny
From : Accession
Date : Mon Nov 24 2025 06:58:30

Hey Tiny!

On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:16:30 -0600, you wrote:

 >> Are you using QEMU by itself from your docker containers?

 > By itself.

You definitely chose an odd way of running VMs, that's for sure. Is there any specific reason you didn't want to go with something like Proxmox or XCP-ng?

 > That's what I figure.  Not a huge problem as my media library isn't huge
 > so I wrote down were we were on some of the shows and just set things
 > manually.

That's good. At least it wasn't that big of a pain. What do you use to grab your shows (I've been out of this realm for a bit)?

 >> Did you end up going through the Archlinux install process via the
 >> wiki? Or did you use the 'archinstall' script? Just wondering, as
 >> I've

 > I did it the manual / wiki way.  I wanted to learn how the system
 > worked.

Very nice. Doing that a few times does indeed help in the learning process.

 >> always done it the old school way, until I setup the VM with
 >> Hyprland (I used 'archinstall'), and was quite pleased and impressed
 >> with the result.

 > I will keep that in mind for VM's for sure.

You still go through much of the process, except there's a nice text interface where you can go through and select everything you would normally just type manually. So it doesn't completely take you away from the "work", but it does make things easier and puts everything in the same place.

 > That's true, but we still need to open one when the captain wants to
 > go on the balcony and pretend he runs the world.

Does that include barking at everything that walks by? ;)

Regards,
Nick

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