Things are FINALLY starting to tick into place with the homelab. Got all
my VMs running locally on Proxmox, including Ubuntu 23.04 for the main
BBS, Windows 7 x86 for DOS-related stuff, and then... another Ubuntu VM
running VirtualBox (lol) so I can then run ArcaOS (OS/2).

ArcaOS doesn't really take that much system resources, it actually runs
well nested.

So what to do with OS/2? Was thinking about PCBOARD... And I would like to
add another VM for FS-UAE/Amiga...

Then -- figure out backups to another drive/server, so i don't lose it all
in a thunderstorm (uh, it's raining now).

I think can can finally stop giving Digital Ocean my $$$, ha.


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Things are FINALLY starting to tick into place with the homelab. Got all my VMs running locally on Proxmox, including Ubuntu 23.04 for the main

I do the same, runs very well!

ArcaOS doesn't really take that much system resources, it actually runs well nested.

Is there much use for ArcaOS ? It's just an off spring of OS/2 right?

to add another VM for FS-UAE/Amiga...

As for Amiga emulation under a VM, doesn't work very good. Meaning if it looses it's screen, FS-UAE will crash. Also issues with remote mouse but can be fixed with virtual mouse if I remember.

I think can can finally stop giving Digital Ocean my $$$, ha.

Yes, local is much cheaper depending on the resources and space you use.

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Hello j0HNNY,

11 Jan 24 00:26, you wrote to All:

Things are FINALLY starting to tick into place with the homelab. Got
all my VMs running locally on Proxmox, including Ubuntu 23.04 for the
main BBS, Windows 7 x86 for DOS-related stuff, and then... another
Ubuntu VM running VirtualBox (lol) so I can then run ArcaOS (OS/2).

ArcaOS doesn't really take that much system resources, it actually
runs well nested.

So what to do with OS/2? Was thinking about PCBOARD... And I would
like to add another VM for FS-UAE/Amiga...

OS/2? then Maximus! :)

Regards,
--
dp

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Things are FINALLY starting to tick into place with the homelab. Got all my VMs running locally on Proxmox, including Ubuntu 23.04 for the main BBS, Windows 7 x86 for DOS-related stuff, and then... another Ubuntu VM running VirtualBox (lol) so I can then run ArcaOS (OS/2).

Nice! I think this is a next weekend project for me as well.

I am not set in stone yet but I believe I'll do:
1. Linux (main BBS, mailer, etc)
2. Win7 x86 /or/ WinXP (undecided)
3. ArcaOS - can this run in its own VM without needing VirtualBox?
4. Something for Amiga stuff
5. Something for Apple stuff
6. Something for Atari stuff

ArcaOS doesn't really take that much system resources, it actually runs well nested.

Good to know. Still curious if it can run directly though.

So what to do with OS/2? Was thinking about PCBOARD... And I would like
to add another VM for FS-UAE/Amiga...

For me, honestly, I purchased ArcaOS and haven't touched it so I just want to use it.

As far as Amiga is concerned, I'm a bit torn...I may go the route you're talking about, but I /may/ see if it's possible to set up Amithlon in its own VM and run that since I will just be using it for BBS related things.

I think can can finally stop giving Digital Ocean my $$$, ha.

Yeah, I need to do this...lol.

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j0HNNY a1PHA wrote to All <=-

Things are FINALLY starting to tick into place with the homelab. Got
all my VMs running locally on Proxmox, including Ubuntu 23.04 for the
main BBS, Windows 7 x86 for DOS-related stuff, and then... another
Ubuntu VM running VirtualBox (lol) so I can then run ArcaOS (OS/2).

Proxmox should be able to run OS/2 as a guest VM, I'm trying that with
OS/2 4.52 and ArcaOS. I haven't gotten it working, but the internet
says it's possible.

So what to do with OS/2? Was thinking about PCBOARD... And I would like
to add another VM for FS-UAE/Amiga...

I ran Maximus, Squish, BinkleyTerm and Timed, all native OS/2 versions.
Swap BinkleyTerm for binkd and you could run a modern OS.

I think can can finally stop giving Digital Ocean my $$$

Check out https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ for a ton of Proxmox helper
scripts - containers for a lot of homelab apps:

Proxmox VE Tools
Home Assistant
Automation
MQTT
Database
Zigbee - Zwave
Monitoring - Analytics
Docker - Kubernetes
Operating System
TurnKey
Server - Networking
Media - Photo
Ad Blocker - DNS
Document - Notes
Dashboards
File - Code
Miscellaneous




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Interesting that you are using Proxmox. I know that the cyber defense
club at Baker College (MI) uses Proxmox to host their environments for practice. In fact, they just went through and revamped their environment
to simulate the competition environment.

Glad to hear someone else is using this environement.
--Matt

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Mhansel739 wrote to j0HNNY a1PHA <=-

Glad to hear someone else is using this environement.

There's a lot of Proxmox running in BBS and homelab circles. I'm using
it to run my BBS, a small Active Directory environment, and a couple of containers myself.


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There's a lot of Proxmox running in BBS and homelab circles. I'm using
it to run my BBS, a small Active Directory environment, and a couple of containers myself.

What kind of "server" are you running the environment on? Can you tell me
why you chose Proxmox over ESXI? I am curious.
Thanks!
--Matt

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Glad to hear someone else is using this environement.

There's a lot of Proxmox running in BBS and homelab circles. I'm using
it to run my BBS, a small Active Directory environment, and a couple
of
containers myself.

Yes! My Talisman BBS is now running pretty flawlessly on a proxmox
container (headless). In the process of spinning up a DOS BBS on a
Win7x86 VM as well.


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Mhansel739 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

What kind of "server" are you running the environment on? Can you tell
me why you chose Proxmox over ESXI? I am curious.

My homelab (https://realitycheckbbs.org/images/homelab.jpg) is a
mishmosh of cast-off and unwanted hardware I've collected over the
years.

1. A Lenovo Thinkpad with a marked-up screen and broken keyboard. I
maxxed the RAM up to 20 GB and replaced a spinning drive with a spare
SSD. I took the back off and replaced the thermal paste and blew out the
dust before putting it into "production". It's got the built-in gig
ethernet and a USB3 gig ethernet dongle.

2. A Netgear R6400 router running DD-WRT - bought by the pound at a
Goodwill outlet, I think it was $4.95.

3. A gigabit desktop switch tossed out from a company when they went
802.1x authentication on the network. Some switches couldn't pass 802.1x
but work fine for everything else.

4. Synology NAS - I bought the chassis used for $120, populated it
with a handful of drives I had left over when I moved my desktop to an
SSD.

5. 10GB external SCSI - attached to the NAS or backups. It's the only
thing I paid full price for!

I use ESXi at work, but it's picky about hardware. Later versions of
ESXi wouldn't run on server-class hardware that earlier versions ran
fine on -- we ended up refreshing servers to meet VMWare's compatibility
list.

I thought there was a pretty good chance an obsolete laptop wouldn't be supported, so I bit the bullet and loaded Proxmox.

This cobbled-together solution runs the BBS, a pihole DNS server, a
reverse proxy server for my internal web servers, a small active
directory test environment, a Docker host and a couple of LXC
containers. The NAS provides NFS shares to my Proxmox environment, SMB
shares and backup for my desktop PC, and DLNA media sharing to my TVs.



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