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Best Virtualization Projects in 2024 for the Home Lab

Best Virtualization Projects in 2024 for the Home Lab

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In 2024, it is a great time to start new virtualization projects in your home lab. In this video, we look at a few virtualization projects you can start in 2024 that can help learn new skills and technologies moving forward and, if you are a nerd like me, they are fun!

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  1. The mention of Docker was interesting, in that you did not mention Kubernetes (aka k8s). Along the lines of moving to small "containers", you also missed mentioning LXC containers. Looking at many of the applications running in VMs, it surprised me how many live nicely in a much smaller and less resource intense LXC container. Without the added complexity of yet another layer (Docker or Kubernetes) of complexity.

  2. This are not that new concepts. Nested virt is at least 12 years old and available on Linux. HCI similar manner but it is popular only on some cases. SDN is much more complicated concept. The standard network virtualization is not SDN. SDN requires programable switches either in openflow or ovsdb (ovn supports ovsdb). It removes controll plane from switch and program it via mentioned protocols. It can use overlay networks like vxlan or geneve. Proxmox supports ovn :).

    My this year projects include RoCE v1 and v2 also in manner of KVM support (qemu-roce interface). Wireguard with dynamic routing (I have 2 wireguard gateways but I plan to have two more with dynamic IP and I want to optimize my traffic). Also I heard that wireguard might be implemented in SDN as now some Controllers like ovn uses ipsec if you want to encrypt network traffic.

  3. I dabbled in nested virtualisation by trying to run ESXi 8 vGPU under UNRAID/PROXMOX KVM. Whilst single GPU passthrough worked OK, VGPU was a completely different story. If anyone has managed to run an L1 ESXi 8 and a vGPU profile allocated to a VM all running on a L0 KVM, then please let me know how.

  4. Nested virtualization is fascinating. My current project is setting up a new machine to do everything my current machine does and more. Then my current machine is going to get set up remotely. For that I'm going to have to learn VPN's and stuff to be able to manage it at the remote location without the freedom to monkey with the network it's on. I'm also really interested in what XCP-NG has to offer, but there just aren't enough guides on it for a noob like me to venture away from PVE.

  5. I was hoping to see some best of breed open source apps in action here or best vmware alternatives covered a bunch more – maybe you can have a pt2 with more concrete examples that are relevant for smb mkt – they need help after vmware plus unraid debacles – ha pihole with recursive dns and ptr records, dual nas with fast networking and some qemu hanging off or ha opnsense would be nice ones to look at

  6. I found out MS hyper V works great for me. Using Windows vms for different maschine automation software environments ๐Ÿ‘ it's really fast and efficient in comparison to a VM Ware machine

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