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It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer
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I know several large companies looking to Microsoft, Xen, and Proxmox. Though the smart ones are more interested in the open source solutions to avoid future rug-pulls.

So is Xen.

I thought Xen and OpenVZ etc. became obsolete with KVM? But it's probably for the best that Xen is still used.

Xen is a type 1 hypervisor, KVM is a type 2 hypervisor

It runs on the bare metal itself as dom0

Doh I meant LXC 🤦 instead of KVM.

LXC is for containers, rather than virtual machines

I was just saying “obsolete” isn’t a good description; All three still have uses depending on your goals

LXC is probably better for most people, and I think Podman is one of the best rootless container options

Yes...? All are except Microsoft, which is why most companies I work with aren't looking that way.

Xen looks great for VPS stuff, and seemed to have good support for vGPUs. That's what I'd choose as a provider. I wish I used it at home but I ended up going with good ol' Linux KVM for USB and PCI support.