KVM Vs. VirtualBox Vs. Proxmox

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Thanks Alexander!!

I had no idea that TrueNAS would also do virtualization.

Do you recall Novell NetWare?  Was a licensed NAS of sorts and it came 
to end of life in the 90's....

Keith


On 2025-01-10 13:10, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:
> On TrueNAS all VMs are KVM under the hood. It runs just like you
> expect. TrueNAS has a wizard you go through to create it, just like
> VirtualBox, but probably less capable than ProxMox as (I think) that's
> more comparable to vCenter.
> 
> TrueNAS has been running my Plex Media server VM for years without any
> issue. The only reason it's not docker is because I'm using the GPU in
> the TrueNAS server, which is too big for my Docker server.
> 
> ---
> Thanks,
> Alexander
> 
> Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro
> 
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025, 12:33 Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Anyone using  KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) ?
>> 
>> How does it compare to VirtualBox and/or Proxmox?
>> 
>> Thanks!!
>> 
>> Keith
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