Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

Re:Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS by walrus01 on Friday April 24, 2026 @08:45PM (#47897550)

If I had a firm requirement to have only one physical piece of hardware home server on bare metal to run further containerized things on, it would be running proxmox, because that grants the ability to run further QEMU, KVM virtualized things, and then to install docker containers inside of any KVM VMs. Even to use QEMU to fully emulate other CPU architectures if necessary.

Or if not proxmox, without a http GUI, just a boring debian stable x86-64 system to manually install QEMU and virt-tools, virsh toolset on to run QEMU/KVM things on with purely CLI management.

This is an interesting general concept but being limited to only running docker containers is a huge constraint.

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Re:Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS by Zta77 on Saturday April 25, 2026 @05:39PM (#47904767)

Oh, but it's not a constraint. And it's certainly not a general concept. It's the very purpose of Lightwhale.

Lightwhale does one thing and it does it great: It lets you run Docker containers effortlessly. And that is it. If that's not what you want, you honestly should run something else — no hard feelings =)

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