Recent content by verulian

Let's actually find out vs having speculative pontifications... A lot of the naysaying here is not feet-on-pavement experience, but rather expressions of belief.

I’m running three Dell PowerEdge R710s (not clustered), 128GB RAM each, dual Xeons, with Proxmox. Across the trio I host ~10-20 LXC containers and 8-15 VMs. Per box I see ~350W peak, ~250W average, and ~160W idle (single 570W PSU, mostly SSDs). Lab‑wide that’s roughly ~1.05kW peak, ~750W...

Do you not think it would be worthwhile to share such information for the community so that I myself don't end up with a nice Frankenstein's monster-style creation that others cannot enjoy? Yes, the beauty of open source: share and others can enjoy in the fun if/when they have time.

I haven't read these yet, but I thought they sounded quite interesting if they could could perhaps translate to seeing Proxmox being able to somehow integrate a low-power usage model that might make some (seeming small) tradeoffs for deeper energy savings potentially...

Got it. So you go and start ad hominem attacks right off the bat to try to humiliate and minimize my authority so your remarks will stand out more... Pretty shitty move guy. Really does make me wonder why I even try on this forum because the bias towards killing its own product sometimes seems...

So I went ahead and decided I should followup with you @Johannes S and for any Proxmox devs as well as anyone else who might reference this thread. Regarding the two main claims here, both of which do not hold when you look at the numbers and where the industry is moving: 1) macOS and iOS...

Uhm... Enormous numbers of companies are providing software for macOS. So much so that I was able to abandon Windows essentially 100% around a decade ago. Very, very easily arguable now that macOS has FAR superior software in every aspect to Windows. The iOS market is also MUCH larger than the...

@flames fair points. To avoid the "official template for every product" slope, the Container‑Host VM I’m asking for wouldn’t bundle any third‑party app at all. Make it a plain Debian‑based preset (PVE’s native lineage), with cloud‑init that toggles a runtime choice at create time: Podman or...

@flames TL;DR? Short version: not asking Proxmox to run/manage Docker on the host. Agree that host‑level Docker tangles networking and security, and there are already great tools (Portainer, K8s, etc.). The ask is a tiny MVP, purely as an on‑ramp (for now) to clean this situation up, reduce...

@scyto thanks - appreciate the nudge and the kind words. It does sound like we’re aligned on the goal: keep Docker in a VM, keep PVE clean, give folks a paved on‑ramp. Then let's see where the road goes after that. On storage, your points are solid. Phase 1 preset: Dedicated vdisk attached to...

@bofh seriously, I’m with you on the dangers. Layer bleed, compose expectations, and host networking landmines are real. That’s exactly why I’m not asking PVE to expose containers, parse compose, or touch guest networking at all. MVP only, explicitly scoped. What I’m proposing is smaller than...

@bofh we’re actually in violent agreement on layers. Docker isn’t a VM, and Proxmox is the infrastructure plane. I’m not asking PVE to run Docker or schedule containers. The ask is tiny, opt‑in glue at the edge so people land on the right infra pattern faster: a "Container Host VM" preset...

@Johannes S totally hear you. Most mature shops do have Ansible/cloud‑init pipelines already. This isn’t about "can’t," it’s about providing a default, safe, opinionated path that lowers support load and eliminates the steady stream of "Docker on the node" foot‑guns. A tiny, opt‑in Container...

I love Proxmox for what it is... clean, capable, and fast at KVM and LXC. But day to day, Docker is the lingua franca for how apps ship... Even those of us who don’t love it still have to use it constantly (I hate it, but it is what it is), and not having any first‑class Docker presence in the...

The new branding is a bit unfortunate. While I was looking at it a coworker walked in on me and asked "How do you pronounce that?" I tried to sound it out and they said "I think it says 'PERVERT'..."... I was at a loss and just laughed. They said "The X is silent and not pronouncible so my mind...