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Do you have always running VMs on your workstation? If yes, what’s running on them? (alien.top)
submitted 9 months ago by nithinbose@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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To clarify I am not asking about a dedicated machine running something like Proxmox or Esxi. My question is about VMs running on your daily use machine on something like VirtualBox, VM ware fusion, parallels etc

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[–] NikStalwart@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So to answer your last question first: I run dual boot Arch+Windows, and I can mount the physical Arch disk inside a WSL VM and then chroot into it to run or fix some things when I CBA to reboot properly. I haven't tried booting a WSL instance off of the physical arch disk but I don't imagine it would work. Firstly, WSL uses a modified linux kernel (which won't be accessible without tinkering with the physical install). Secondly, the physical install is obviously configured for physical ACPI and Network use which will break if I boot into it from WSL. After all, WSL is not a proper VM.

To answer the first question as to services: notes, kanban boards, network monitoring tools (connected to a VPN / management LAN), databases, more databases, even MOAR databases, database managers, web scrapers, etc.

The very first thing I used WSL for (a long time ago) was to run ffmpeg. I just could not be bothered building it for Windows myself.

[–] nithinbose@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah that was my thought too booting from the physical disk usually doesn't work. Just had to ask in case, WSL had something up its sleeve to magically do this, I guess not.

Seems like you are a database guy, are they all always running?

Thank you for your reply.