Kris and Chris are back from some travel to bring you another episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk! On today's episode, RC1 will be launching next week, we’ll dig deeper into the containers vs VMs discussion from last week, and answer a couple of viewer questions we received this week on Incus data backup and how to change the compression algorithm on existing data.
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00:00 Intro
00:48 TrueNAS 25.04-RC1 Available March 11, 2025
01:35 iSCSI Boot in Incus VMs
03:14 Important PSA - App Migration from Dragonfish Ending June 1
05:16 Software Status and a 25.10 Teaser
05:48 Docker vs LXC vs VMs
07:00 Docker - Powering the Apps Catalog
10:45 LXC - Linux Containers for Power Users
16:10 KVM - Full Virtualization, Full Customization
16:29 A Brief Aside - Home Assistant (HAOS) in a VM
18:13 Back to more general KVM Discussion
20:42 Viewer Questions
21:00 Q1 (Flo) - Backing up Incus Disks in Fangtooth
22:16 Q2 (Jason) - Compression and How To Change It
25:38 ZSTD Adaptive Compression and "Early Abort"
29:19 Outro