Linux

I guess you should use proxmox at this point 🤣

There are many many many insane people who are running no virtual machines at all.

Mutahar please log in to your main account

With that many Windows (gasp) ones, no... I'm afraid you are not

linux users are sane?

I have about twice this many VMs and about this many running at any given time.

I use Qubes btw

Yes, but usually they'd have a more robust VM management system to stay sane for long.

Is this like opening tons of browser tabs?

Hell to update them regularly 👀

I think you have a problem, there needs to be more to be normal.

The biggest reason why I don't want maintain so many Vms is, because all the maintenance and updates that involve doing so.

I mean, people collect all sorts of weird shit

Interesting enough, there is a project that I've found that runs Windows in a Docker container as a VM.

https://github.com/dockur/windows

I run a Windows 10 LTSC that way to run things like Blue Iris for my security cameras, and some stuff to track my solar installation.

It's only insane if you have them all running at once.

How much disk space have you got??

Not VMs but I have way more docker containers. I run most things as containers which keeps the base OS nice and clean and free from dependency hell.

I have probably a couple of more Linux/BSD VMs than here (with some with GPU passthrough and one or two for ARM crossbuilding and so on) but only 2 Windows VMs - the only 2 I have legitimate licenses for.

But am I normal? Most would disagree. 😅

I do have as many too at work.

I use one VM for each iteration of my automation software. Our factory has machines ranging from the 90s to present day, and they use different software environments to be programmed. In order to minimize the risk of data loss, we have one virtual machine with every software environment, that way if one gets corrupted, the damage is contained. It also makes them easier to export to new computers when we need to replace ours.

MacOS 15 on proxmox ? How do you make the iso exactly ?

You can say: "I use Arch, Fedora, Windows, MacOS, Gentoo, LFS, Debian, PopOS, and more, btw."

not even sure distro tube has this many lmao

On the joke, define "sane". 😬

On a serious note, I think there are valid reasons to have several VMs other than "I was bored". In my case, for example, I have a total of 7 VMs, where 2 are miscellaneous systems to test things out, 2 are for stuff that I can't normally run on Linux, 2 are offline VMs for language dictionaries, and 1 is a BlissOS VM with Google programs in case I can't/don't want to use my phone.

I've had physical esx servers running this many VMS simultaneously, and I can totally see why a hobbiest or dev would have a need for this many VMs on standby. You are sane, yes

I always remove any virtual machines every time I'm done with it and reinstall if I need to use it again

Looks normal for testing stuff. I have 5ish in my desktop hypervisor.

Yeah.

My home server runs that many, but it's a monster dual xeon.

The freebsd instances have a ton of jails, the Linux vms have a ton of lxc and docker containers.

It's how you run many services without losing your mind.

I run a different LXC on Proxmox for every service, so it's a bunch. Probably a better way to do it since most of those just run a docker container inside them.