Introduction
8 pages in this section.
- Why Hoster What the platform actually does differently: sub-second deploys, ZFS as a first-class citizen, microVMs, and a shared-nothing design where every host survives on its own.
- Quick start The whole path from bare hardware to a running VM, at a bird's-eye level — and an honest answer to when you need Control Center and when you need a cluster.
- Your first VM Pull a template, deploy from it, and get a shell inside the guest — with what each command actually does and why the deploy returns before you have finished reading it.
- MicroVMs Container workloads with a real kernel boundary: how microVMs differ from VMs, why HosterOS removed the setup they used to need, and how to run a compose stack inside one.
- Snapshots, replication and the scheduler A fresh node takes no snapshots at all. Here is the schedule to give it, what each job type is for, and how replication and disaster-recovery backups build on the same machinery.
- Clustering Three nodes, two commands and a token. What forming a cluster actually turns on, what quorum costs you, and how to look at one once it exists.
- Live migration Moving a running VM to another host without stopping it — what has to be true first, what the preflight checks, and the list of things that rule a guest out.
- Changing a guest after deploy Resizing, relabelling, sharing folders in, re-addressing and cloning — what you can change on a guest that already exists, what needs it stopped, and what you cannot change at all.