[mdlug] Poll: what virtualization products are you using?

[Ben Werthmann]

I run SmartOS at home. :) Some "Smart Machines" mostly "lx-branded zones".
Which enables one to run native Linux binaries on SmartOS, an Illumos (fork
of Open Solaris) distribution. It does this by syscall  virtualization.

My server is getting a bit long in the tooth. It's an Intel Sandy Bridge
era desktop with a cross-flashed LSI HBA for the ZFS pools. A zpool for
zones (2 x 1 TB, mirrored), and the obligatory "tank" zpool 4 x 2 TB, 2
mirrors of 2 (approximately, a "raid 10").

I'm currently building a RISC-V rig for testing... I have a soft spot for
the then-insane RISC workstations from the 90s and 00s.


On Sun, Jan 9, 2022, 20:25 Nick Wilkens <nick.wilkens at mnxsolutions.com>
wrote:

> We’re running Triton Cloud (https://www.joyent.com/triton/compute) at
> work and I run Parallels on my Mac.
>
> Triton is my favorite for so many reasons (it also runs our public cloud
> at mnx.io).. It runs SmartOS as the hypervisor with native Linux
> hypervisors in alpha stage right now.  We run instances on Bhyve, KVM, and
> native SmartOS zones on the Triton cloud.
>
> /me waves to Robert!
>
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org <mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org> on behalf of Gib <
> gibmaxn at gmail.com>
> Date: Sunday, January 9, 2022 at 7:57 PM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Poll: what virtualization products are you using?
> I'm using VMware ESXi vCenter at work.
>
> I've tried many of the virtualization products mentioned in the video.
> Virtualbox, QEM, Proxmox, xcd.
> I've also tried some of the environments for managing virtual machines and
> containers like Kubernetes, Pivotal Cloud Foundation and Openstack.
>
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 2:24 PM Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Since you asked ...
> > My main system these days is a Chromebook.  So, I'm using whatever Chrome
> > OS uses when enabling Linux, which appears to be crosvm, a variant of
> KVM.
> > In the cloud, I run whatever the various cloud providers use: AWS, GCP,
> > Azure, Digital Ocean, etc. Then there's Docker, which runs on everything
> I
> > have access to, including Raspberry Pi, Chrome OS, Ubuntu, Windows 10/11,
> > Mac OS, and every single cloud instance.  Docker may not be a true VM,
> but
> > I often use it like one. Oh, and whatever GitHub uses when it runs
> Actions.
> >
> > I used to run VMWare and KVM on servers via Vagrant.  Same with
> VirtualBox
> > and QEMU on desktop PCs.  Haven't needed to do that in years.
> >
> > Regards,
> > - Robert
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 7:26 AM Carl T. Miller <carl at carltm.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Just a fun thing to see what we're doing for doing
> > > for virtualization.  Please list as much info as you're
> > > comfortable with sharing.
> > >
> > > c
> > >
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