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Broadcom yanks ESXi Free version, effective immediately (kb.vmware.com)

submitted 8 months ago by kalpol@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'd expected this but it still sucks.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

LXD is not really usable for anything as it is very slow

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

LXD uses QEMU/KVM/libvirt for VMs thus the performance is at least the same as any other QEMU solution like Proxmox, the real difference is that LXD has a much smaller footprint, doesn’t depend on 400+ daemons thus boots and runs management operations much faster. The virtualization tech is the same and the virtualization performance is the same.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm just doing it wrong. I've just found LXD to be lacking as you can't live transfer it to a different host. It is also slower than Docker and Podman and I was unable to get docker running in a unprivileged LXC container. I think it should be possible to run docker in LXC but by the time I spend the effort is is more secure and easier to use a full virtual machine.

Maybe I should revisit the idea though as it seems like many people stand by it.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’ve just found LXD to be lacking as you can’t live transfer it to a different host

It isn't lacking... https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/howto/move_instances/#move-instances but as with Proxmox there are details when it comes to containers. VMs can fully migrate live.

I was unable to get docker running in a unprivileged LXC container

What host OS are you running on? Did you set security.nesting true on said container?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

I probably just set it up wrong.