On today’s episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris share a bit more on the Virtualization plans for 25.10 before diving into the raison d’etre behind Community Edition, and how Community asks are balanced against the Enterprise needs.
Community users have varied hardware and lots of tuning needs - from the intel_idle driver for power savings, to experimental virtual GPU support on Intel graphics, to the upcoming NVIDIA drivers that add support for the 50-series cards while dropping the 10-series and below.
Finally, it’s time for another check-in on Agentic AI - is vibe coding bussin’ or busted? Sound off in the comments section!
So you say for 25.10 you will use libvirt for both VMs and LXCs?
I am curious how will libvirt LXC driver work out.
Can you clarify if Incus is still the long-term plan?
What I mean, is libvirt (Classic Virtualization) brought back only temporarily until you get Incus properly integrated and developed?
I personally believe Incus can be great if it just gets some time for proper integration.
Are the words: “Customer contract sizes range from $10K to $10M.”
I would be interested in what the enterprise side of the business looks like, as that is what gives us homelabbers this great product for free. Having a picture of that part of the business would add context
In particular I’d love to hear details of what a $10M enterprise contract would comprise in terms of software, hardware and support. It’d be a total nerd-out.
Love the podcast. Was the audio in the last episode sped-up? I thought that it was, judging from the unnatural cadence and manic gestures and eye movements from the hosts. I know a lot of YouTube videos have sped-up dialogue and I understand the reasons why, but I’d say that for this conversational type of broadcast it is distracting instead of engaging.
I am glad to here that the classic KVM system is still getting improvements and will be restored on the next point release. When I first heard that TrueNAS was moving to Incus I thought this would be an improvement until i saw all of the horror stories, the workarounds needed, not being able to use a ZVOL of my choice, then and I came to the conclusion that the VM system in Incus was not good for running Virtual Machines. I don’t understand Docker or LXC containers so I can speak to them, but TrueNAS did not have them before.
It is important just to be able to spin up a VM and put any OS on it, otherwise what is the point if you can only emulate modern systems. One of the biggest uses of a VM is to run that legacy software (i.e Windows XP and Vista) and legacy hardware via passthrough.
I know this is not the place, so i am being cheeky, but could I encourage the Devs to fix the CD-ROM issue in KVM now that you guys are keeping KVM. Please allow media eject so I don’t have to remove a CD-ROM device every time I don’t want to mount a CD in what ever OS I am running or prevent booting from it. Virtual Machine - Stop the need to add and remove the CD-ROM device
Now that KVM is getting restored I cant wait to upgrade and start using the new APP catalogue to get the best out of TrueNAS.
My primary use of TrueNAS will be VMs, Apps and all of the benefits of ZFS (eg snapshots).
And I do appreciate that I am getting this software for free and could not be more thankful.
