The tab reports one of four states for the selected machine (ready, repair, installable,
unavailable) from what it finds — /dev/kvm, the package manager's incus candidate, the
pool drivers the kernel has — and acts on that machine only. Install is one followed task:
packages, a pool whose backing file sits in Ham Lab's own virt/ folder (zfs pool on a file,
btrfs on a loop mount, or a plain dir), a bridge on a subnet picked clear of the machine's
routes and Docker's pools (never 10.x on a /8 LAN), the DOCKER-USER rules that keep
Docker's FORWARD drop off the bridge, the incus-admin group for Ham Lab's account, and a
restart. Instances list with live CPU and memory, create from the images: catalogue or a
local image (container or VM, limits, cloud-init), start/stop/restart/force-stop/rename/
delete, console and shell as terminal tabs, snapshots with Incus's own schedule and expiry,
limits editing. Images: local store, catalogue search and download (exported into the
library too), import a tarball or a VM disk from a path, publish an instance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
