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What vm software you use on linux (self.linux)

submitted 4 months ago by Mwa to c/[email protected]

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I use vmware and qemu

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Proxmox seem powerfull

It's a Type1, not Type2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor#Classification

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I use Proxmox for the machine that I use to download all of the Linux ISOs I want. You know, with a VPN, through BitTorrent. Linux ISOs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Proxmox isn't really its own hypervisor. It combines a few common projects to make a OS. It is pretty much KVM with corosync for clustering.

With that being said it is a solid platform. Just keep in mind it is just standard Linux virtualization and for single nodes you can get the exact same setup easily on any Linux system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, the exact same except for the frontend. It's arguably better than virt-manager imo. I wonder how hard it would be to get pve-manager running outside the OS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

You absolutely can. People have done Proxmox installs on Debian and unsupported architectures by building from source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the pointer. But since Proxmox supports both KVM and LXC virtualization, wouldn't that make it both type 1 and type 2?