Comment on Broadcom yanks ESXi Free version, effective immediately

• TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And this how I know you’re full of shit. 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 and boots and runs operations much faster. The virtualization performance and tech is the same.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      It isn’t lacking… linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/…/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?

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I probably just set it up wrong.

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