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Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?



Miles Fidelman wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 1, 2023, 9:58 PM Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru 
> > <mailto:vas@sibptus.ru>> wrote:
> >
> >     Dear Colleagues,
> >
> >     There is a hypervisor called bhyve for FreeBSD. It's completely
> >     headless, no graphics, runs as a daemon and provides serial and VNC
> >     consoles.
> >
> >     Can you please advise a similar headless and minimal hypervisor for
> >     Debian or Ubuntu?
> >
> >
> The classic would be Xen (which I've been running for years). There's 
> also Virtual Box, and VMware ESXi.  You might check out the list at 
> https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/open-source-hypervisor/

Thanks for reminding about Xen, it looks minimalist enough, I am
going to have a look at it.

VMware ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor, not exactly what I was looking
for now (though when I had some experience with it, it had some kind
of Linux inside).


-- 
Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE
http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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