On 9/7/23 10:31, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
I currently have a VMWare ESXI host machine in my home lab. I’m
considering alternative platforms and happy to experiment, but also
don’t want to get part way down a rabbit hole and then realize I’m
suddenly dealing with a bunch of hard to surmount accessibility issues.
Have you considered running KVM under Debian?
I’m also unsure about performing OS installs . is it possible to get
audio over a VNC connection or something?
If you run Qemu/KVM, you can have text console access to the guest
operating system. This worked when I last tried it, admittedly a number
of years ago.
You could also run prebuilt images designed for use in a virtual machine
instead of starting with an ISO 9660 file and using an operating system
installer.
Much of the attention is shifting away from virtual machines these days
and toward Linux containers instead. I am assuming in my reply that you
actually want a virtual machine for some reason, but if what you really
need is a container, then there should be fewer accessibility issues and
less resource consumption. (The kernel is shared between the host
operating system and the containers, but the libraries and running
programs aren't.)
For containers, you would be best advised to look at Podman, Docker,
etc. I haven't had experience with these tools, so I can't offer much by
way of detail.
