Talos Linux—an OS stripped down to the essentials and locked tighter than a production firewall—now boots cleanly as a VM on Proxmox, playing nice with full KVM/QEMU support. No shell, read-only filesystem, all wired for Kubernetes via talosctl.
System shift: Devs are tossing old-school VM stacks for bare-metal vibes. Minimal OSes like Talos run lean, talk Kubernetes natively, and dodge the bloat.
