Just find a static host for free instead of dealing with it yourself. Million out there.

Just get a separate host for whatever the VM stuff you want. You won’t need to worry about messing anything related to storage up, AND you’ll be able to mess with all the networking stuff without impacting your NAS.

If you’re just trying to run some simple services, just get a $300 Ryzen minipc. Plenty powerful for what it sounds like you’re looking to do.

You’re thinking about this wrong way though. Why are trying to abstract the thing that keeps your disks working properly? What’s your gain here?

There’s the question of “CAN I do this?” vs “SHOULD I do this?”. I don’t think abstracting your main storage handling software away from where it definitely needs to be is going to net you anything positive, but add more issues and complications.

I’m sure you can find videos of people running drivers out of containers just because it’s possible. Should you though? Nope.

Oof. No.

Wouldn’t do it for a litany of reasons, but the main being that it’s not meant for such things. You want it to be as close to the OS and drivers as possible. Anything getting between Unraid managing the disks is overly complex, and asking for trouble. What happens if the container dies? What happens if the container gets OOMkill’d?

If you’re not going to use it to manage your disks, then I guess no issues, but there’s better suited software for such things.

Isn’t Unraid also a VM host of sorts?

If you saw an OOM anything, it’s getting OOMkill’d by the kernel trying to keep the machine up. Check syslogs and dmesg, and it should say what was killed, and there’s your problem container. You probably have a memory leak, so just check your container stats every so often and see what is growing out of control with memory usage.

Enable swap regardless. Would also help to know what you’re running.

I have a few random brand ones that run just fine. Just keep backups.

If you really want Intel, just get an N100 or N300. Low power, Intel HW transcoding on iGPU on Linux kernels 6.3+, and can handle Jellyfin no problem. You can get a minipc with everything you for $175 for a no name brand, or maybe $250 for a more well-known brand.

Wut

On the “server” side, you need to allow packets to get forwarded from the wg interface to the “lab” side. Positive there are guides on this. If you enable firewall logs, you’ll see that packets are being discarded until you allow them to be forwarded between interfaces/networks.

Maybe search for a “hub and spoke” guide, which essentially what you are doing.

Get a NAS for home, and VPN in as needed. Store all your media on the NAS, and also use it as a phone backup target.