Should I use virtiofs or networking in a homeserver pls?

MarcusEvans

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Aug 12, 2025
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Helllo,

Our new NAS has a laptop CPU, 96 GB RAM, 4 NVME’s and 5 HDD. Clustering is not a consideration. It’s a personal NAS to stream some things, store the family photos in Immich , runs Roon Music server etc. Professionaly, I have a few datacenters to play with.

The hardware runs a debian LXC as a fileserver. Works great.
My question is what is the best solution to run a couple of docker containers in 9.1. I will still use a dedicated VM, but should I use NFS or virtiofs to present the shares to the docker VM?

I have read everything I could find and watched every video I could find and I’m still not sure about the best solution for my particular hardware and use case.

Thanks