KVM Vs. VirtualBox Vs. Proxmox

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Was a programmer for an international company in 1995 that was using 
Novell.  The next company was running Novell as well.  Went back to 
first company for a Y2K project and they had moved to WIN.



On 2025-01-12 12:44, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:
> Waaay before my time.
> 
> ---
> Thanks,
> Alexander
> 
> Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro
> 
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2025, 12:43 <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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