Virtualizing Your Networked Resolve Database Server on Linux

What is Virtualization?

Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the past decade – it’s pretty likely you’ve at least heard of the term virtualization. Even if you don’t use it directly – you’ve certainly used it indirectly while using almost any online service.

Virtualization is the the process of running a virtual computer inside a physical one. Multiple virtual machines can run on a single host machine. This makes it possible to maximize the hardware of a single computer, running multiple operating systems and services at the same time. It is also how almost all datacenter and cloud applications are hosted today.

Virtualized Database Servers For Resolve

Resolve’s project database runs on a industry standard Postgres database platform. This means it can be hosted on just about any computer, and it barely uses any resources. This also makes it a perfect use-case for virtualization. Many colorists already have NAS machines that support running virtual machines. If you don’t have a NAS that supports virtualization, you may have a spare computer that is doing something else that does.