Without Installing another OS like Proxmox, does anyone know any tooling that will easily deploy VMs on my local computer and deploy software stacks on them?
I only have my desktop for hosting, but I also want to continue using it as my personal desktop.
I’d like to host game servers, cloud storage software, websites for clients. And have a portal for me (and potentially them) to be able to provision).
Edit: I’m just finding out about Apache Cloudstack which might do what I’m looking for.
I’m not sure what your regular OS is but on Linux you can also use Qemu/Kvm to run virtual machines, or docker/podman for containers. You can also look into Virtual Box for a more finished interface. If you want to have something that behaves like the cloud you could also try Incus.
On windows : HyperV or Virtual Box for vms, you can also use Docker Desktop or Podman desktop. I think wsl also let you run services.
Qemu would be awesome. But I’m looking for more of an orchestrator. I’m on Arch Linux. Incus looks awesome! https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/