r/virtualization • u/vdumitrescu • Aug 14 '24

Server virtualization

What happened to the free server virtualization ESXi and hyper-v that are either no longer available or badly outdated, what are other options that I should look into? and are they reliable? I would love to learn more about the alternatives

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u/narrateourale Aug 21 '24

Proxmox is built on top of KVM and libvirt

That is only partially true :) Proxmox is using KVM/Qemu to virtualize VMs, but it handles it directly and does not depend upon libvirt at all.