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Bare metal vs Virtualization (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by tangerinine@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Hey all,

I know this is a bit off-topic but this sub is one of the few where one can talk about technical stuff and not about tech careers lol.

I have been thinking about that a lot lately. Are there use cases where bare metal is better than virtualization? Have you ever encountered an use case that the virtualization overhead is an issue? I would love if you share your experiences. Thanks =)

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[-] will_a113@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

As someone who deals with this both at home and at work, 10+ years ago there were valid reasons to not use virtualization, but these days there really aren't -- especially at home, unless you enjoy the pain of building things back up from scratch (on your own time) when something breaks. Disk IO is good, GPU passthrough works, USB passthrough works, etc., etc. Maybe very, very edge case scenarios like mining chia or something would still benefit from bare-metal access, but that's not what we self-host for, right? ;)

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