LXCs are great for lightweight services, but some home lab apps need the isolation, hardware access, and cleaner recovery ...

Proxmox’s solid performance in virtual machines (including those running in a nested setup) is the reason why I use it for my distro-hopping experiments, DevOps training, and remote development ...

Part I of this Deep Dive on containers introduces the idea of kernel control groups, or cgroups, and the way you can isolate, limit and monitor selected userspace applications. Here, I dive a bit ...

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The next wave of virtualization on servers is not going to look like the last one. That is the thinking of Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Linux project more than a decade ago and head of ...

The new version of Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.1 creates LXC containers from OCI images, stores vTPM status in qcow2 format, and improves SDN monitoring. The Vienna-based Proxmox Server Solutions ...

I recently started dipping my toes into homelab/self-hosted stuff and after encountering docker in my workplace travails I got kinda excited to start playing with it at home when it came into my life ...

Containerizing the GUI separates your work and play. Virtualization has always been a rich man's game, and more frugal enthusiasts—unable to afford fancy server-class components—often struggle to keep ...