Quick overview of my setup: Synology NAS running a whole bunch of Docker containers and a couple of full blown VMs, and an N100 based mini PC running Ubuntu Server for those containers that benefit from hardware acceleration.
On the NAS I have a Linux Mint VM that I use for various desktoppy things, but performance via RDP or NoMachine and so on is just bad. I think it’s ultimately due to the lack of acceleration, so I’d like to try running it from the mini PC instead but I’m struggling to find hypervisor options.
VirtualBox can be done headless, apparently, but the package installed via Apt wants to install X/Wayland and the entire desktop experience. LXC looks like it might be a viable option with its web frontend but it appears to be conflicting with Docker atm and won’t run the setup.
Another option is to redo the machine with UnRaid or TrueNAS Scale but as they’re designed to be full fledged NAS OSes I don’t love that idea.
So what would you do? Does anyone have a similar setup with advice?
Thanks all!
Edit: Thanks for everyone’s comments. I still can’t get LXC to work, which is a shame because it has a nice web frontend, so I’ll give KVM a go as my next option. Failing that I might well backup my Docker volumes, blat the whole thing and see what Proxmox can do.
Edit 2: Webtop looks to be exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again for everyone’s help and suggestions.
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Proxmox is sort of the gold standard for homelab server operating systems. Runs containers and VMs.
If you’re not into Proxmox, look into Fedora Server with Cockpit. Web UI for server management. Fedora CoreOS is an immutable variant of Server that would make more sense for a hypervisor, IMO.
I’ve been stung too many times by truenas scale and truecharts breaking things so I just redid my entire server set up switching from truenas scale to fedora server 40 with podman and cockpit and it’s a bit tricky with selinux but it’s been WAY better.
I’m running a few arrs and jellyfin, as well as a vm for home assistant.
Proxmox is overkill if you aren’t clustering. Just setup a server with libvirt and then use virtual manager to connect from a different machine.
I say go with proxmox on the n100 (I use it), there are alternatives kvm/QEMU managers that I heard good things about as well (namely Incus https://github.com/lxc/incus )
The ) at the end of the url is breaking it and sending me to a 404 page
That would seem to be a failure of your client’s or instance’s Markdown parsing. The link works correctly from Mbin.
It wasn’t in a markdown format, also I’m on jerboa
well, if whatever code automatically turns plaintext links into hyperlinks isn’t Markdown related, then it’s still the instance or client you’re using that has the problem. before they edited the trailing space in, it was working correctly on my end. You should consider looking into it and filing a bug.
XCP-ng is pretty cool
Yes, big fan of XCP-ng, we use it extensively in work, but I’m not convinced it’s my best option in this case.
Look into libvirt with vGPU acceleration
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NAS Network-Attached Storage SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access VNC Virtual Network Computing for remote desktop access
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