Over the past week, I’ve been playing around virtualization. Over the course of things, I’ve learned a lot about virtualization, and a little about myself, too.
Let’s start on the setup. I install Proxmox VE on what’s theoretically my gaming PC - a Lenovo Thinkstation P520 with a 6-core, 12-thread Intel Xeon W-2135 workstation CPU and 64gb of DDR4 ECC RAM. Typical of enterprise workstation hardware, it’s a bit more powerful than your average PC and memory-dense, but less so than a rack-mounted generalist server.
If you haven’t played Venba, I highly recommend it. It’s a story-forward mechanically simple game, and you can finish the main story in under two hours. I recently did just that, and boy do I have some feeling about the story that it tells about immigration and assimilation and its intersection with food. There are several scenes in the game that directly mirrored my own experience, and I want to share that.