Without Installing another OS like Proxmox, does anyone know any tooling that will easily deploy VMs on my local computer and deploy software stacks on them?

I only have my desktop for hosting, but I also want to continue using it as my personal desktop.

I’d like to host game servers, cloud storage software, websites for clients. And have a portal for me (and potentially them) to be able to provision).

Edit: I’m just finding out about Apache Cloudstack which might do what I’m looking for.

  • Blip6338@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    I’m not sure what your regular OS is but on Linux you can also use Qemu/Kvm to run virtual machines, or docker/podman for containers. You can also look into Virtual Box for a more finished interface. If you want to have something that behaves like the cloud you could also try Incus.

    On windows : HyperV or Virtual Box for vms, you can also use Docker Desktop or Podman desktop. I think wsl also let you run services.

  • tvcvt@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    You can definitely run VMs or containers on your desktop system and there are a lot of ways to do that (as others have said). If it’s the automated, reproducible setup you’re after (and you are purposely avoiding docker), give a look to terraform and ansible to create and provision your software.

    • dudesss@lemmy.caOP
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      1 month ago

      Can terraform (or OpenTofu) be used to create local VMs as well? I always thought it was just for popular cloud infrastructure like Digital Ocean or Google Cloud.

      • tvcvt@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        I’ve only ever tinkered with it slightly on a Proxmox host, but I ran it locally when I was testing it and it was glad to setup the VMs on the same system it was on.