Subj : Re: VMWare Fusion and Workstation now FREE
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Accession
Date : Sun Nov 24 2024 12:02:24

Hello Poindexter,

On Sun, Nov 24 2024 11:07:30 -0600, you wrote ..

> Proxmox is just QVM/QEMU behind the GUI, and there are a decent 
> amount of commands available by SSHing into the box (and it's based 
> on Debian, so more commonality there)

Whereas, I believe XCP-ng is built on a severely customized CentOS to 
the point where they can basically just call it their own distro. I 
guess there was some community worry when CentOS changed things up for 
v9 but these guys seemed to have no worry whatsoever.

Definitely seems legit no matter which one you choose, as they both seem 
pretty promising for the future.

> The Proxmox helper scripts have quite a few homelab services
> available to install as LXCs, and they take less resources than
> setting up a docker host and running docker containers. Networking
> is easier since you've got one IP address per container per app.

As it's a homelab, I probably don't dive in far enough to even utilize 
any of that stuff. I just need to be able to install it, and then 
install whatever VMs I want or need to, on it. Resource consumption is 
the least of my worries currently.

So without the need of containers et al, maybe I could get away with 
either one. I'll have to do more studying up on which one is easier to 
update as well as migrate to and from.

> I really want to get 3 micro systems and set up ceph and zfs on it, 
> with proper HA - not that I need that at home, but it'd still be 
> neat to have.

I don't know about all of that. I would much rather put my time into 
other things, to be honest. :)

Regards,
Nick

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