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From: Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
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Subject: Re: All VM-based development
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:13:48 -0700
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On 1/10/2025 5:24 PM, Dave Platt wrote:
> In article <vlqkks$3tbjk$3@dont-email.me>,
> Don Y  <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> But, the NEXT step is to consolidate my current workstations into
>> a single (?) box and virtualize all of the prior machines (knowing
>> that the VMs will obviously fit on the media that held the original
>> images -- just relocate them to the SAN).
> 
> This seems to be a popular approach for people who are putting
> together a "home lab" and running a bunch of different services.

Yes, but those *tend* to be folks doing web development, etc.

I deliberately asked, here, as the types of tools used *here*
may suffer problems with this approach (witness Sergey's
comment that Altium doesn't seem to run).

It's a lot of work to build VMs for all of this stuff AND VERIFY
THE APPS IN EACH!  So, I was hoping for a "heads up" as to the types
of things that were not going to like this.

> The virtualization approaches range anywhere from simple
> Linux containers, to full hypervisor-level virtualization.
> 
> Proxmox appears to be the most popular home-lab virtualization
> manager.