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Virtualization
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Safe Yolo Mode: running LLM agents in isolated VMs
A guide to running LLM agents with full auto-approval permissions inside libvirt/virsh VMs, so risky operations are contained without restricting what the agent can do. The sandbox is the safety rail, not permission restrictions.
Pimox: Proxmox Virtualization on Raspberry Pi 4B
A comprehensive gist for turning a Raspberry Pi 4B into a Proxmox virtualization host using Pimox — covers Home Assistant VM, USB passthrough, SSD boot, and Docker. Practical homelab reference for ARM-based virtualization.
Docker VM on Proxmox with RancherOS and Portainer
A walkthrough for running Docker on Proxmox using RancherOS as a minimal container-focused VM OS, with Portainer for container management UI. RancherOS is now unmaintained, but the pattern of a dedicated Docker VM inside Proxmox remains common.
virtual-builders: VM Environment Builder Scripts
virtual-builders is a collection of scripts for building various virtual machine environments — QEMU/KVM-based VMs for development and testing. Useful for quickly spinning up reproducible Linux environments without Docker.
Installing macOS Big Sur on Proxmox
Nicholas Sherlock's guide for running macOS Big Sur as a virtual machine inside Proxmox VE — the canonical resource for macOS virtualization on open-source hypervisors. Makes it possible to run macOS without dedicated Apple hardware.
Hadoop on VMware: Another Workload Conquered?
EMC's Chuck Hollis on running Hadoop workloads on VMware virtualization — the argument that bare-metal Hadoop deployments could be replaced by virtualized clusters with manageable performance trade-offs. A 2013 salvo in the bare-metal vs. virtualization debate for big data workloads.
Best Practices for Virtualizing Hadoop
Hadoop Summit presentation on best practices for running Hadoop on VMware HVE (Hadoop Virtualization Extensions) with Hortonworks HDP — addressing the core tension between virtualization flexibility and Hadoop's data locality requirements.
DaaS, MaaS & DRaaS: The Next Phase of Cloud Computing
ReadWrite on the next phase of cloud computing beyond IaaS and SaaS — Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), Monitoring-as-a-Service (MaaS), and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS). A 2013 taxonomy of cloud computing's expanding delivery model landscape.
Virtualization Performance: Zones, KVM, Xen
Brendan Gregg's benchmark comparing the performance overhead of Solaris Zones, KVM, and Xen virtualization at Joyent. A rare empirical comparison from someone with the systems instrumentation expertise (DTrace) to measure what actually matters.