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virtual format for maximum portability. (piefed.social)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I have been contemplating virtualizing my day to day and running it on my host with the thought I could upload it to a cloud for various reasons. Thing is I would like to use a virtual machine but I want something that could be moved anywhere without any modification. So I sorta feel I would have to go with a container but again I sorta prefer a standar vm. Im just looking for peoples thoughts.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Honestly that's a tempting idea... but then I remember that installing a fresh Debian on my desktop takes me 1h tops, swapping my /home directory and configuring few key software, in particular the browser, too so... for me, not worth it for now.

Also in practice maybe I make a fresh install once a year, at most. Otherwise it's quick Debian on remote machines, RPi, etc and then it's pretty much per machine configuration.

That being said if I were to do it I'd look at rsync with a set of ssh keys and Docker/podman for containerization of whatever services serve the data, potentially behind a VPN so that I can use it all remotely yet more securely. In practice though... that ends up being a centralized Web server, which I already use as https://fabien.benetou.fr/ and that's been good enough for me for years, more than a decade now actually.

Can you please elaborate a bit more on the use case and/or software you have in mind because maybe I don't properly understand your needs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Its just an idea I had. To virtualize my general computing environment for day to day that does not need a lot of resources generally. So the idea is it would be great to run it on my laptop but like move it to a cloud provider when traveling and travel with a laptop that has nothing personal and then interacting remotely. So a combo of easy change of hardware combined with travel without personal info.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What about containers with desktop, e.g. https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-firefox/ or another from https://www.linuxserver.io/our-images (based on Guacamole https://guacamole.apache.org/ AFAICT) with a mounted WebDAV (via e.g. NextCloud) for data?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this looks sorta nice and im checking it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Neat, let me know if you have questions or idea.

I did set these up a little while ago but I don't have an on-going setting so I'd be happy to help and curious to see if something new can come out of those ideas.