In my efforts to find the easiest homelab platform ZimaOS seems really darn close. I’ve tried Proxmox (no easy way to do NAS-like functionality, UnRaid (okay but confusing/ugly UI), TrueNAS (overkill for my needs), and just raw iron Ubuntu (too much upkeep).
My requirements are pretty minimal.
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Simple Raid or Raid-like management to ensure redundancy
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Timemachine
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Docker Plugins
→ ZimaOS handles all the above “good enough”, knowning that it will get Better…
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Last one: VM support with way less features needed than Proxmox – again Check.
However for the life of me I can’t figure out how to access shares (or anything else for that matter) from a VM, as there is no route to host.
I’m using “bridge to eth0” networking.
– Is there something I’m missing, a known issue, and perhaps a workaround?
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Good to hear your preference on ZimaOS. And thank you for choosing Zima.
To better serve users like you, may I ask: what were the three main things that made you decide to go with ZimaOS? What do you do with ZimaOS for work and life in the real world?
Regarding connecting the sharing from ZimaOS, try to switch the networking from bridge mode to NAT after shutting down the VM.
Look forward to your feedback.
If I change to NAT networking, will I be able to ingress from my local network to the VM? I’d assume NOT correct?
Three main things on why I’m considering choosing ZimaOS:
- nice, easy UI
- meets my core requirements (Raid/Raid-Like; Timemachine; Docker plugins)
- doesn’t have bloat
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Thanks for the feedback.
Yes, based on my experience, a virtual machine’s network can only be configured to connect either to the host machine(NAT) or to other devices on the local network(bridge), but not both at the same time.
Hope this is helpful.