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.

  • dudesss@lemmy.caOP
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    1 day ago

    Can terraform (or OpenTofu) be used to create local VMs as well? I always thought it was just for popular cloud infrastructure like Digital Ocean or Google Cloud.

    • tvcvt@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      I’ve only ever tinkered with it slightly on a Proxmox host, but I ran it locally when I was testing it and it was glad to setup the VMs on the same system it was on.