Virtual Machines- is there a better way to jump start a VM?
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Thank you!
NP! That's how I do it on proxmox, I'll start the VM every so often and update it. Only takes a few seconds to clone so it's nice and quick to do.
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I’ve been using VirtualBox for a year now and I’m getting pretty ticked every time I have to start a new Ubuntu VM. I speed more time going to root shell prompt to add myself to sudoers file, add myself to groups, the addons, shared folder and storage not mounting right away….. etc etc.
I’m sure I might be not using VirtualBox to its full potential to avoid long setup times but I feel like I shouldn’t have to deal with this. It should act is it being installed on a bare metal machine. Is there a more modern approach? Something more streamlined?
FYI I’m learning containers and miniKube so I’m not jumping in the deep end yet.Incus has a great selection of images that are ready to go, plus gives scripted access to VMs (and LXC containers) very easily; after
incus launchto create a VM,incus execcan immediately run commands as root for provisioning. -
I’ve been using VirtualBox for a year now and I’m getting pretty ticked every time I have to start a new Ubuntu VM. I speed more time going to root shell prompt to add myself to sudoers file, add myself to groups, the addons, shared folder and storage not mounting right away….. etc etc.
I’m sure I might be not using VirtualBox to its full potential to avoid long setup times but I feel like I shouldn’t have to deal with this. It should act is it being installed on a bare metal machine. Is there a more modern approach? Something more streamlined?
FYI I’m learning containers and miniKube so I’m not jumping in the deep end yet.wrote last edited by [email protected]I make a unique user for each VM - root account is secured with SSH login disabled and a unique password, which is stored in my password manager.
Also, don't use Virtualbox. It's Oracle garbage. Use virt-manager instead.
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NP! That's how I do it on proxmox, I'll start the VM every so often and update it. Only takes a few seconds to clone so it's nice and quick to do.
Just read their doc and saw a video about. Very streamlined. I love it.
