For most of the last twenty years, anyone who wanted two Linux installs sharing a server reached for a hypervisor. Containers came later for process-level isolation, but the kernel itself stayed single-tenant…
Running a Windows virtual machine inside Linux has always been a series of trade-offs. You get isolation, a real Windows desktop, and the ability to run software that does not have a…
I spent an entire Saturday trying to boot a fresh Arch install with an encrypted root, a ZFS pool on top of LVM (logical volume management, the Linux kernel’s framework for carving…
VirtualBox NAT networks are supposed to be the boring default. You install a guest OS, leave the network mode on NAT, and the guest reaches the internet through the host’s interface. Most…
Proxmox VE 9.2 for Arm64 is the announcement I have been waiting on for years. The home lab story used to come with a built-in assumption: Proxmox meant x86, full stop. Anyone…
Virtual machines (VMs, programs that emulate an entire physical computer inside your existing one) have been declared dead at least once a year for the last decade. Containers were supposed to make…
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