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@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: github.com/antifob/incus-windo

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!

Toolset for creating Windows images for Incus. Contribute to antifob/incus-windows development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHubGitHub - antifob/incus-windows: Toolset for creating Windows images for IncusToolset for creating Windows images for Incus. Contribute to antifob/incus-windows development by creating an account on GitHub.
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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.comIncus for Containers and VMs: A Powerful Proxmox Alternative? A Step-by-Step Guide to build a ClusterIs Incus a better solution than Proxmox? Features and usage of Incus in detail.
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@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):

blog.hetherington.uk/2025/01/s

Rocky Hetherington's Blog · Setting up Incus with ZFS on NixOS
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Unhappy with #DockerDesktop on #macOS? Give #Colima a try!

It's a free and open #container runtime for macOS. It now supports the macOS #virtualization framework, #virtiofs for fast volume mounts and forwarding #inotify events for hot/live reloading. It can even provide a #containerd, #kubernetes or #incus runtime.

github.com/abiosoft/colima

(I would've preferred #podman, as that's what I'm mostly using in production, but it still doesn't support forwarding inotify events on macOS)

GitHubGitHub - abiosoft/colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setupContainer runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup - abiosoft/colima