--- title: "I ditched VMs for Linux containers, and my home server finally has room to breathe" url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-ditched-vms-for-linux-containers-and-my-home-server-finally-has-room-to-breathe-v6uh40yts source_url: https://www.xda-developers.com/ditched-vms-for-linux-containers-server-finally-room-to-breathe type: article source: "XDA Developers" published: 2026-06-02T21:31:52.976Z updated: 2026-06-02T21:32:17.167Z tags: ["infrastructure", "self-hosting", "homelab", "proxmox"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 2 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I ditched VMs for Linux containers, and my home server finally has room to breathe **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal account of migrating a home server from virtual machines (VMs) to Linux containers (LXCs), primarily using Proxmox. LXCs share the host kernel instead of virtualizing an entire OS, resulting in near-native performance, faster boot times, lower resource overhead, and simpler snapshots. The author explains when LXCs make sense over VMs, notes that VMs still have advantages for GPU passthrough, hardware passthrough, NFS shares, and full OS isolation, and concludes that a hybrid approach works best for most home lab setups. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [I switched from Docker to Proxmox LXCs, and managing my home lab finally stopped being a chore](https://daily.dev/posts/i-switched-from-docker-to-proxmox-lxcs-and-managing-my-home-lab-finally-stopped-being-a-chore-vdkk6dlwb) · XDA Developers · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [Almost every service I self-host runs in a Linux container, and the math just doesn't favor a VM anymore](https://daily.dev/posts/almost-every-service-i-self-host-runs-in-a-linux-container-and-the-math-just-doesn-t-favor-a-vm-any-9izgkxuox) · XDA Developers · 25 upvotes · 2 comments - [I ditched Docker Desktop for native containers and everything is better](https://daily.dev/posts/i-ditched-docker-desktop-for-native-containers-and-everything-is-better-uyg7itr9o) · XDA Developers · 20 upvotes · 2 comments --- Tags: [#infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/infrastructure), [#self-hosting](https://daily.dev/tags/self-hosting), [#homelab](https://daily.dev/tags/homelab), [#proxmox](https://daily.dev/tags/proxmox) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/i-ditched-vms-for-linux-containers-and-my-home-server-finally-has-room-to-breathe-v6uh40yts)