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by Mister_Snuggles 2874 days ago
I have many use-cases where containers are simply unsuitable.

I'm using FreeBSD, but these apply just as well to Linux. I wanted to run ZoneMinder, which is not available for FreeBSD, so I simply spun up a CentOS VM and installed it.

On the flip side, I wanted to run Home Assistant, Node-RED, and some related utility programs. All of these are happy to run on FreeBSD, so they can live happily in a Jail (FreeBSD's equivalent to a container).

Some people virtualize their router by dedicating a NIC to the appropriate VM. I don't know if this would even be possible in a container.