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There is a KVM equivalent on MacOS, Apple's Hypervisor virtualization framework.

KVM is just the kernel side, you need QEMU (for example) on userland. On MacOS you have now UTM.

Proxmox is the way to go in businesses right now to replace Vmware

It's also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.

Hyper-V could literally suck my dick all day and I still wouldn't use it if there's a non-microsoft option that works. Not interested in being the test group for any more of their shit or get rug-pulled at the worst moment.

I'd say that if you tend to like Microsoft products, then hyper v. If you tend to be annoyed by then but like Linux, then proxmox is great. It manages to be a good blend of approachable with a GUI but also having solid API and cli that didn't overly abstract things away from the underlying implementation

But if you aren't really a Linux person, then I'd wager hyper v is the right direction.

I haven’t yet set up proxmox, but yeah, I think hyper-V would work well in a small to medium windows shop.

The negatives I found probably don’t apply

• for large installations, it never scaled as well as VMware. We saved millions on licenses when we switched, but had to buy a lot more hardware. In particular we were doing software QA where we needed many VMs but they didn’t need much resources, and hyper-v just couldn’t scale in that direction. More standard use cases probably won’t have this problem, plus this was 4 years ago so I don’t know if anything has changed
• for special case installations, hyper-v was a horrible experience on my laptop. I had the resources, but couldn’t pass through usb devices, and it kept messing up my networking.

From my experience running heavily Hyper-V over the last 15 years, don't be afraid of it, it's worth the look. Especially for a single node like you're talking, no reason not to in my opinion.

Another vote for Hyper-V.

Yeah, if you're used to Microsoft servers and have a Microsoft network it integrates really nicely and is great to manage. Plus, it's free.

Proxmox is definitely on its way to become a viable replacement for sure. There's also OpenShift from Red Hat which could be worth a look at as well.

At first, I thought the products you were listening were "good softwares going to die". I was like "wut. Proxmox is fucking epic."

Proxmox is amazing.

Man could you imagine what proxmox would be if that project got just a tenth of the money VMware got?

Classic prisoners dilemma. Nobody wants to invest in proxmox because not enough people invest in proxmox.