With free esxi over, not shocking bit sad, I am now about to move away from a virtualisation platform i’ve used for a quarter of a century.

Never having really tried the alternatives, is there anything that looks and feels like esxi out there?

I don’t have anything exceptional I host, I don’t need production quality for myself but in all seriousness what we run at home end up at work at some point so there’s that aspect too.

Thanks for your input!

  • vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    DO NOT migrate / upgrade anything to the snap package

    It was already in place when I came in, and it’s a mess. As you said, there’s no proper upgrade path to anything else. So anyway…

    you should migrate into LXD LTS from Debian 12 repositories

    The LXD version in Debian 12 is buggy as fuck, this patch has not even been backported https://github.com/canonical/lxd/issues/11902 and 5.0.2-5 is still affected. It was a dealbreaker in my previous tests, and doesn’t inspire confidence in the bug testing and patching process on this particular package.

    Do you have any links/info about the way in which Proxmox kernels/packages differ from Debian stable?

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      So you say it is “buggy as fuck” because there’s a bug that makes it so you can’t easily run it if your locate is different than English? 😂 Anyways you can create the bride yourself and get around that.

      About the link, Proxmox kernel is based on Ubuntu, not Debian…

      • vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        “buggy as fuck” because there’s a bug that makes it so you can’t easily run it if your locate is different than English?

        It sends pretty bad signals when it causes a crash on the first lxd init (sure I could make the case that there are workarounds, switch locales, create the bridge, but it doesn’t help make it appear as a better solution than proxmox). Whatever you call it, it’s a bad looking bug, and the fact that it was not patched in debian stable or backports makes me think there might be further hacks needed down the road for other stupid bugs like this one, so for now, hard pass on the Debian package (might file a bug on the bts later).

        About the link, Proxmox kernel is based on Ubuntu, not Debian…

        Thanks for the link mate, Proxmox kernels are based on Ubuntu’s, which are in turn based on Debian’s, not arguing about that - but I was specifically referring to this comment

        having to wait months for fixes already available upstream or so they would fix their own shit

        any example/link to bug reports for such fixes not being applied to proxmox kernels? Asking so I can raise an orange flag before it gets adopted without due consideration.

        • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Well what I can say is that since my team migrated everything to LXD/Incus the amount of tickets that are somehow related to the virtualization solution we used dropped really fast. Side note: we started messing around with LXD from Snap (but running under Debian) and moved to Debian 12 version as soon as it was made available.

          About the kernel things, my upstream fix comment was about how Canonical / Ubuntu does things. They usually come up with some “clever” ideia to hack something, implement it and then the upstream actually solves the issue after proper evaluation and Ubuntu just takes it and replaces their quick hack. This happens quite frequently and it’s not always a few lines of code, for instance, it happened with the mess that shiftfs was and then the kernel guys come up with a real solution (idmapped) and now you see Canonical is going for it. Proxmox inherits the typical Canonical mess.