David Vasandani
@davidvasandani@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@glennbrown @MediocreWightMan @ironicbadger This repo has been really helpful with both learning the incus commands and creating Windows thin images I can use to spin up virtual machines: https://github.com/antifob/incus-windows

Make sure to follow @stgraber (Incus Project Lead that is very active here and posts regular updates) and the #incus hashtag. If you run into any windows specific issues don’t hesitate to @ me. Cheers!

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gyptazy
@gyptazy@gyptazy.com  ·  activity timestamp last week

as always, highly depends on your personal needs. I'm a huge Proxmox fan, but there're of course several different cool solutions. Next to #Proxmox, I also often use #incus [0] in personal labs but I'm also a huge fan of #XCPng with #Orechstra. #SuseHarvester 's [2] approach is also a great solution (similar to #Platform9) if you want to go into the modern world (in the end, they're also using KVM). If it's just single node, I really would also consider #bhyve on #FreeBSD (maybe even via #ClonOS / #cbsd).

[0]: https://gyptazy.com/incus-for-containers-and-vms-a-powerful-proxmox-alternative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-build-a-cluster/
[1]: https://gyptazy.com/blog/xcpng-a-more-professional-alternative-to-proxmox-based-on-xen/
[2]: https://gyptazy.com/blog/harvester-a-more-modern-alternative-to-proxmox/


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gyptazy
@gyptazy@gyptazy.com  ·  activity timestamp last week

as always, highly depends on your personal needs. I'm a huge Proxmox fan, but there're of course several different cool solutions. Next to #Proxmox, I also often use #incus [0] in personal labs but I'm also a huge fan of #XCPng with #Orechstra. #SuseHarvester 's [2] approach is also a great solution (similar to #Platform9) if you want to go into the modern world (in the end, they're also using KVM). If it's just single node, I really would also consider #bhyve on #FreeBSD (maybe even via #ClonOS / #cbsd).

[0]: https://gyptazy.com/incus-for-containers-and-vms-a-powerful-proxmox-alternative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-build-a-cluster/
[1]: https://gyptazy.com/blog/xcpng-a-more-professional-alternative-to-proxmox-based-on-xen/
[2]: https://gyptazy.com/blog/harvester-a-more-modern-alternative-to-proxmox/


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Alex Kretzschmar
@ironicbadger@techhub.social  ·  activity timestamp last week
#proxmox “Keep the host clean”

Also #proxmox “yeah btw q35 pci passthrough is broken atm. lol sorry”

v9 has really made me think about looking elsewhere for something like it. theres a lot it gets right but v9 is proving hard to love as the project (probably unsurprisingly given the vmware stuff) is lurching towards enterprises.

i have literally run proxmox almost non stop since 8 years everywhere. perhaps i should give it a break and chill and also not upgrade to .0 on “pseudo prod” homelab machines.
Rocky Hetherington
@MediocreWightMan@indieweb.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@ironicbadger My VM/System Container needs are simple so i've had no problems with #Incus on #NixOS.

One of my favourite features is that because it's a Go binary it can be run as a client on multiple OS'. So i can run it on my primary #MacOS system to admin my nodes running on #Linux.

I wrote a blog post at the beginning of the year about how I set it up on a cheap 1L mini PC (along with relevant configuration.nix file):

https://blog.hetherington.uk/2025/01/setting-up-incus-with-zfs-on-nixos/
Stéphane Graber
@stgraber@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

First boot of #Incus OS inside of a 64-bit ARM VM!
That's with all security features enabled as with a production build, so full UEFI Secure Boot and TPM 2.0.

Incus OS VM booting up for the first time inside of a 64-bit ARM VM using UEFI Secure Boot and a TPM 2.0 vTPM device.
Incus OS VM booting up for the first time inside of a 64-bit ARM VM using UEFI Secure Boot and a TPM 2.0 vTPM device.
Stéphane Graber
@stgraber@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

First boot of #Incus OS inside of a 64-bit ARM VM!
That's with all security features enabled as with a production build, so full UEFI Secure Boot and TPM 2.0.

Incus OS VM booting up for the first time inside of a 64-bit ARM VM using UEFI Secure Boot and a TPM 2.0 vTPM device.
Incus OS VM booting up for the first time inside of a 64-bit ARM VM using UEFI Secure Boot and a TPM 2.0 vTPM device.
Rocky Hetherington
@MediocreWightMan@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@felixxx I use #Incus on a Lenovo m910q mini PC that i picked up from eBay for £50.

I wrote a post on how I set it up using #NixOS a while ago. This is just a simple single node machine. I haven't looked into clusters or more advanced setups.

https://blog.hetherington.uk/2025/01/setting-up-incus-with-zfs-on-nixos/