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🚂 raspbeguy [mod]

2024-12-20 · 1 year ago · 👍 random29343

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🚀 stack · 2024-12-20 at 18:54:

So, could you do a quick writeup on the state of virtualization today?

I've tried years ago to use early VirtualBox and later Qemu. I mostly write code, but also work on FPGAs, which often required multi-gigabyte IDEs which phone home and I wanted to keep these isolated...

Eventually I gave up -- performance loss, maintaining virtualization systems (with weird and suspicious kernel modules, etc), and maintaining yet more OS installations (both real and virtual) turned my life into a very unhappy and incompetent systadmin instead of what I wanted to do.

Even things like Docker are a total pain and require tons of extra resources and time to maintain...

Are things better today?

🎵 random-elephant · 2024-12-22 at 07:25:

Docker is a bit like git: it takes a while to wrap your head around what it does and how it works, but once you do it's a very powerful tool.

🚀 unquietwiki · 2024-12-23 at 03:32:

I like how the Proxmox folks have successfully abstracted KVM & LXC for use by the average sysadmin. I also use Docker to run my website (have used Podman in the past); though in general, I think it can be cumbersome to work with at times.