Subj : VMWare Fusion and Workstation now FREE
To   : Accession
From : Vorlon
Date : Tue Nov 26 2024 10:52:00


Hello Accession!

24 Nov 24 19:59, you wrote to me:

 >> One of the things that LXC's use is the server's own kernel.

 Ac> Ah, I didn't know this part. I thought you install one VM (for
 Ac> example, Debian) and then your containers ran on and around /that/
 Ac> kernel. Not the actual kernel of the host (ie Proxmox).

A lot of people don't see this, and then get into trouble due to the way lxc's work.

[...]
 >> A LXC container pretty much behaves as a TTY-only Linux VM. The
 >> difference is that a LXC will share its kernel with the Proxmox host
 >> and as such, any hardware-level vulnerability in the host will
 >> expose the LXC CT and vice-versa.

 Ac> The debate for me isn't really Proxmox vs XCP-ng, as they both would
 Ac> be great for my use case. I guess I was looking at if I needed
 Ac> containers or not, which I don't, and never have. Either or, both of
 Ac> the above do VMs perfectly fine, Proxmox just offers containers,
 Ac> whereas XCP-ng doesn't.

 Ac> Thanks for the explanation, it definitely gave me some new information
 Ac> I didn't already know!

Yeah, when I first started playing around with VM's (LXC's) via a provider I quickly came to see the downside of them.. I think I
initially chose lxc due to the cost.. Then it was chalenge to get some things working that I wanted (Ie: VPN).

Ever since that time, I've chosen real VM's and have been able to treate each of them like they are real computers.



Vorlon


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