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Some alternatives:
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Incus - After canonicals takeover of LXD a fork of it called Incus was created. Supporting both virtual machines and linux containers. Free open-source with paid support.
https://github.com/lxc/incus -
virt-manager - For home usage without clusters and the like a simple Linux host with kvm/qemu/libvirt/virt-manager usually works just fine.
https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager -
Cockpit Project - Cockpit can be used to manage both virtual machines and podman. Personally I use it in tandem with virt-manager.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-podman https://github.com/oVirt/cockpit-ovirt -
Proxmox - KVM/LXC Hypervisor based on Debian. Supports clustering and High-Availability. Free open-source with paid support. https://github.com/proxmox
Bhyve on FreeBSD
XCP-NG, which I think was split off from an old Citrix branch oray be a clone, but it has a pretty solid set of features. Costs nothing unless you buy support or use their paid management appliance, but there’s an open version of that available as well.
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Fucking broadcom.
As it was expected…
Do any of these support bridged wifi connections?
Along with the termination of perpetual licensing
Just so? Termination of a perpetual licence?
I have altered the deal…
Perpetual, not irrevocable.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The free cut of ESXi was only able to run on limited number of cores, addressed a modest quantity of memory, and lacked many management niceties.
Justin Warren, the principal analyst of consultancy Pivot Nine, told The Register the demise of free vSphere means "Broadcom has pretty clearly signaled that it is no longer interested in smaller VMware customers.
Warren rated the change "another gift to competitors like Nutanix, Scale Computing, Microsoft with Hyper-V/Azure Stack, or Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (via KubeVirt).
Pre-acquisition VMware proudly touted the 4,000-plus small clouds that ran its stack, and applauded their ability to offer services that hyperscalers could not – especially providing sovereign clouds that lacked the complex legal entanglements that see multinational hyperscalers sometimes beholden to laws of their home jurisdictions.
Meanwhile, the implications of Broadcom’s decision to end perpetual licenses for VMware products continue to be analyzed by users.
One VMware consultant of The Register’s acquaintance told us the change means some workloads now appear to be cheaper to run on bare metal than under vSphere.
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