Bootstrapping a Hypervisor

So just a few weeks late to the party here, it turns out that between work, the 3.24 Alpine release, and "camp counselling" I left myself very little time for actually working in my legacylab. Fortunately, I think I can get things moving in the right direction in a decent clip once the core work is done. Now my lab idea requires a hypervisor, and the period appropriate answer is to reach for Hyper-V on Windows 2008 R2, but I honestly don't want to do that yet. It's a good base for what I'm trying to do, but it's not the quick start I really need right now. Instead I'm going to use an Alpine Linux based incus hypervisor, which I'll configure with salt. There's two lines of reasoning here, the intent of llsc (for me) is to learn something I'm only partially exposed to professionally, ergo building on top of systems I know wicked well makes a ton of sense. I want to do the least amount of time administering the underlying hypervisor and the most amount of time tinkering with old windows.…