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Hello again!

Recently had made a post where y'all helped me out as a noob setting up a server. One comment in particular gave me an idea and now I'm wondering if this would work and would it perhaps be easier to do, since I've had trouble figuring out how to (safely) set up the remote connection stuff.

I installed Fedora Kiinoite on the server/htpc and was learning how to use Podman since I don't want to go through the trouble of using Os-tree.

But it just occurred to - would it work if I used Gnome Boxes to run Cosmos Cloud and run all the services I want to remotely connect to from there? Or would there be an issue since it's a VM? Cosmos Cloud seems to make it easy to securely remotely connect, and it uses containers too.

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[–] Hezaethos@piefed.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Update: I don't think it worked because I can't access it via localhost. I'll maybe try a bit more later but if it doesn't work I'll just start over like some suggested in my other post and go with a classic Debian installation

[–] mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Localhost would only work on the machine itself. I have Cosmos installed on my own computer, but I have no experience trying it in a virtual machine. That may be a question better suited for the Cosmos Discord server, I can get you an invite if you want it

[–] Hezaethos@piefed.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, I already nuked everything and started from scratch on Debian... Many thanks tho