What Do You Use Your Production Home VM For?

[AdvHomeServer]

What do you use your Virtual Machine (VM) for?

Please exclude all VMs that exist on one PC and are used for educational or experimental purposes.

I mean real, working VMs in a home network setting. It can be experimental, but should be accessible by all / many network clients, not just the experimenter.

Examples

Not included
For example, I once had a Windows Server network via VirtualBox on a laptop for educational purposes. Nobody else could get at it. I do not mean this kind of VM.

Included
I am thinking of putting my pfSense router and Windows or linux on a box in VMs and using Win / linux via TeamViewer for everything I can't do or do well on an android tablet.

Is it a Type 1 or Type 2 VM?
Type 1 VM hypervisors are the OS. Type 2 VMs run under the OS, such as VirtualBox under Windows. Hyper-V under Win8 Pro is a hybrid (to me).

For those who are way ahead of me and already doing slick stuff, what are you using your home VM for?

 

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Heres one application for VMs
https://xkcd.com/350/

 

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Here at the Fortress - I do have a VM running production code for home use - Debian 8 running in a KVM/QEMU instance (QNAP QTS 4.1.4, their Virtualiztion Station application, which is a nice web based front end for KVM/QEMU)

I would not suggest running PFSense inside a VM - routing is fairly sensitive to latency, and while modern hypervisors are fairly stable and fast (both Type 1 and 2), better to run things on metal there.

 

[Cloud200]

I have a few VMs running at home.
Freenas,
Unifi controller,
Unifi video,
Windows server for AD,
Couple of other other test guests.