I feel like what you’re saying here, in effect, is “USB connected drives in a RAID are a bad idea, but if you’re going to do it, ZFS is the way to go.”

My understanding is that for proper cluster management you slap Pacemaker on there.

We use cockpit at work. It’s OK, but it definitely feels limited compared to Proxmox or Xen Orchestra.

Red Hat’s focus is really on Openstack, but that’s more of a cloud virtualization platform, so not all that well suited for home use. It’s a shame because I really like Cockpit as a platform. It just needs a little love in terms of things like the graphical console and editing virtual machine resources.

The previous comment is an excellent summary. It is worth noting that there are some type 1 hypervisors that can look like type 2s. Specifically, KVM in Linux (which sometimes gets referred to as Virt-manager, Virtual Machine Manager, or VMM, after the program typically used to manage it) and Hyper-V in Windows.

These get mistaken for type 2 hypervisors because they run inside of your normal OS, rather than being a dedicated platform that you install in place of it. But the key here is that the hypervisor itself (that is, the software that actually runs the VM) is directly integrated into the underlying operating system. You were installing a hypervisor OS the whole time, you just didn’t realise it.

The reason this matters is that type 1 hypervisors can operate at the kernel level, meaning they can directly manage resources like your memory, CPU and graphics. Type 2 hypervisors have to queue with all the other pleb software to request access to these resources from the OS. This means that type 1 hypervisors will generally offer better performance.

With hypervisor platforms like Proxmox, Esxi, Hyper-V server core, or XCP-NG, what you get is a type 1 hypervisor with an absolutely minimal OS built around it. Basically, just enough software to the job of running VMs, and nothing else. Like a drag racer.

They’re obviously looking for a type 1 hypervisor like Esxi. A type 2 hypervisor like virtualbox does not fit the bill.

This is true, but not everyone gets to use a linux system as their main desktop at work. I’m not aware of a windows version of virt-manager, but if that exists it would be fucking rad.

“How dare this business try to make money?!!”

Open source still has to exist within the framework of capitalism. I am all for building the fully automated luxury gay space communist utopia where people just build awesome software and release it for free all the time without ever having to worry about paying the bills (seriously, I would encourage every open-source advocate to think about how much more awesome stuff we would have if universal basic income was a thing), but that is simply not the world we’re in right now. They need to keep the lights on, and that means advertising their paid services.

When big players like AWS are running KVM and XCP-NG, yeah. VMware is basically the also-ran at this point.

I assume what you’re looking for specifically here is a complete platform that you can install on bare-metal, not just the actual hypervisor itself. In which case consider any of these:

• Proxmox
• XCP-NG
• Windows Hyper-V Server Core (basically Windows Server Nano with Hyper-V)
• Any Linux distro running KVM/QEMU - Add Cockpit if you need a web interface, or use Virt-Manager, either directly or over X-forwarding

For playback (ie, self host your own streaming service), you want Airsonic or Navidrome, with any Subsonic compatible app on your devices.

You can also go Jellyfin with Finamp, but it’s a video service first, whereas the others are much more audio focused.

For audiobooks and podcasts, Audiobookshelf. It has its own app.

For downloading music, you want Lidarr or Headphones. Fair warning, the music torrenting scene really died off with Spotify, so you’ll probably want to get on some Usenet groups to have good sources for the releases you want.

If you want to add audiobooks, Readarr can apparently handle that.

That’s it. That’s the thread. Everyone else go home.

I just heard of NixOS for the first time because of this thread. Looked up some videos on it, and my jaw hit the fucking floor.

I’m currently contemplating switching to Rocky. What makes you want to get away from it?

Ubuntu, but I’m very strongly considering switching out to Debian or Rocky. Ubuntu has a lot of really unnecessary cruft that I think I’d be better off without.

I use Fedora on my laptop now, so going the RHEL/Rocky/Alma route for my servers is really tempting. Especially as I’m also considering switching to Podman.

Namecheap does DyDNS. I’ve been using them for years, really solid.

I run it in its own separate VM. Normally I use containers for everything, but Caddy being the part that’s most on the outside of my network, as it were, I wanted to separate off.

Caddy is fantastic, incredibly easy to configure and just works out of the box beautifully.

Here’s what I would be looking for;

• Decent mobile app (more than happy to pay for this if it’s a one time fee)
• Bonus for a OneNote / Evernote style Android widget. Being able to scroll through and quickly select from my most recent notes in the OneNote widget is really helpful.
• WYSIWYG editor on mobile and desktop (why in God’s name does every Foss notes app insist I use a markdown language?) with bullet points, numbered lists, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and headings.
• Checklists (as in, ability to add checkboxes to notes)
• Ability to create an arbitrarily deep folder structure
• Tags would be nice
• Import from popular apps like OneNote, Evernote, or Joplin is basically essential at this point. A lot of us have way too fucking many notes to move by hand.

You can do that with regular docker. Just add your user to the docker group.

(don’t forget to log out and log in again after adding new groups to your user)

From what I understand Scale uses libvirtd and KVM virtualization. You’re probably using the builtin virtio virtual network, which uses macvlan if I recall correctly. Anyway, because of the way it’s set up, communication between the VMs and the host is impossible. I’m guessing that what you need to do is create a bridge on the host, and then assign it directly to each of the VMs. That’s how it works with regular KVM anyway. If TrueNAS are doing something different that might throw a wrench.