My tiny Homelabs
➡️ Intel Core-i3 N305 - 16GB DDR5 - FTTH GPON ONT SFR with nftables snat routing.
➡️ Intel Core-i7 4785T - 16GB DDR3 - Run from RAM (tmpfs) TESTING
Both are bare metal hypervisor that run fully in RAM with Xen kernel and Alpine Linux host. Incredibly fast en small footprint (27w idle).
Persistant on demand (snapshot like) Instant rollback !
⚡Incredibly Fast!
Windows 11 on Xen Alpine Linux 4GB RAM - 52 GB Disk (Microsoft Limitation)
My previous post was poorly framed and came across as too commercial. Sorry about that.
Alpine has convinced me so much over the last seven years that I still do not really understand why it has not been adopted more widely.
Here is the straightforward version.
UnyPort is an open source management interface written in Go. It is a web monitoring dashboard built for Alpine and Xen/Alpine environments. It detects and color-codes four different runtime contexts: containers, Dom0, DomU, and Alpine Linux bare metal. The demo is running in a DomU
Part of this approach comes from earlier work we did around Alpine ACF.
The screenshot below comes from the public beta demo:
demo.unyport.app - v0.1.0
In that example, the exposed Alpine/Xen DomU has its network managed by the Xen Dom0, while also managing multiple Xen virtual machines itself.
Source code:
https://codeberg.org/tony-bonnin/unyport
Thanks, and sorry again for the earlier noise.