Hey all,

I know this is a bit off-topic but this sub is one of the few where one can talk about technical stuff and not about tech careers lol.

I have been thinking about that a lot lately. Are there use cases where bare metal is better than virtualization? Have you ever encountered an use case that the virtualization overhead is an issue? I would love if you share your experiences. Thanks =)

  • desnudopenguino@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d say it depends. I run BSD’s in my setup, with a freebsd “development” server running a bunch of jails for projects. I find that easier to maintain than a vm host lately. I just have one more vm to port over to a jail, then I’m retiring my 12 year old server, and looking for a new one.

    I have another freebsd box running as a file server for the house, where I drop all our media and a copy of important backups.

    I kind of use bsd jails like containers. Once I get one working, I can package it and send it to a server, jnpackage it, and run it with minimal effort/reconfiguration.