Anybody out there in #homelab land using #TrueNAS Scale with VMs?

I've built a nice, reliable NAS. And then I noticed that it could do VMs. Great! I thought. I have a couple different VMs running some important things like #HomeAssistant.

What I have discovered is that their VM support is terrible. Unless I misunderstand, I literally cannot do any of these things:

• backup a VM
• restore a VM
• export a VM
• import a VM
• snapshot a VM

If I treat each VM like a full #linux host, I can back it up using something else (e.g., rsync). But if this was #xcp with Xen Orchestra, I'd have this whole thing solved in seconds.

I'm thinking about creating a big VM, running a nested hypervisor (XCP) and then running my VMs there. But that sounds like a huge faff. And even then, while I could snapshot the child VMs, that parent VM running the hypervisor would be hard to backup/restore.

I have plenty of RAM and spare CPU cycles on my NAS. But I've only recently understood how bad this VM support is. If I lost my HomeAssistant VM I'd cry.

Anybody have thoughts on this?
#selfhosting #selfhosted

If any #homelab folks have some spare disk space and bandwidth and want to help #resist, you can #selfhost an instance of ArchiveTeam Warrior as a VM.

The VM appliances are downloadable off of GitHub and then you just launch the VM and let it work.

If you use #xcp as your #xen hypervisor, and #xenorchestra to manage it, you might think you can just give it the GitHub URL and import. Sadly, no. I got an error. But the VM is only 165M, so if you download it to your laptop and then upload it via the XO web interface, it's trivial to launch.

Virtualization - How’s it going? My personal and the @BoxyBSD infrastructure will be shifted. By the end of the year a multi geo located setup (Germany, France, Canada) takes place - running on #XCPng and I’m really excited.

#XCP including #Orchestra perfectly fits my requirements. Not being that nit-picky about latencies also allows me to include nodes located on the other site of the world. @olivier is doing great with XCP!

A blog post why I moved from #bhyve -> #Proxmox -> XCPng follows!

Running #Enterprise or #Homelab with #Proxmox? Doesn’t matter!

#ProxLB is now available in version 1.0.4 with some more features and fixes! ProxLB fills the gap of missing DRS in Proxmox and also brings in some more features!

https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB/releases/tag/v1.0.4

I used to run QubesOS somewhere around 3.0 RC1 back in 2015. I was impressed with how well it worked out of the box for a major OS project such as this. The only thing that didn't work on my machine at that time was automatic suspend/resume within the netvm.

I loved what @rootkovska was proposing with security by isolation, a much needed step in the right direction for secure systems.

Fast forward to today and the supported hardware has expanded significantly and many problems have been solved in the 4.1 release. The community has also expended and I saw @micahflee's HOPE talk in 2018: "Qubes OS: The Operating System That Can Protect You Even If You Get Hacked"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4U8YbXKwog

If you're looking to join a community to learn more about Qubes OS I have a few resources. Hope to see you around!

1. Qubes Forum: https://forum.qubes-os.org/
2. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Qubes/
3. Discord: https://www.reddit.com/r/Qubes/comments/zt5roz/qubesos_content_poll_vote_and_let_me_know_what/