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From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in our office lab

97 points by arch1e

by dizhn

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Sylve looks like a decent project with a promising future but this article really doesn't explain why they picked it over Proxmox at all. They explain a lot of things but I can't see the advantage over prox other than they wanted to use it.

by whalesalad

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Wow, TIL! https://github.com/AlchemillaHQ/Sylve
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo4oD5UON30

by KaiserPro

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What does Sylve provide that proxmox doesn't?
Or better, how does it do it better than proxmox?
This isn't to say that proxmox is the best thing since sliced bread, I'm curious as to what makes sylve better, is it the API?

by gcifuentes

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by ThomIves

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I was very happy to read this one. I do use ProxMox, and I have very few issues with it, but perhaps it would be worth the investigation.

by wolvoleo

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This is really interesting. I've played with bhyve before but I didn't realise anyone actually used it in anger. And that people had written such great tooling around it.
My home lab still uses ESXi 8. But it needs something new and I was looking at proxmox. However I may give this a try first.

by matifali

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Any plans or thoughts for? Terraform Provider? I use Proxmox as my infrastructure provider and heavily rely on Terraform to provision resources.

by meitham

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The article promotes the value of UI for the infrastructure by touching on ZFS. But in this age of Ai, what I’m really looking for is a good api or cli one can let LLM drives. I basically care more about using my infrastructure than how to create it. I know proxmox can do this, but I wish there was a nixos like system where all my VMs are in one file I can verify between LLM making the change and deployment

by jollymonATX

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When I first read this I was like wow bad choice vs sticking w proxmox but then I reflected a bit on my rashness. A tight zfs L1 w/o systemd actually does sound interesting. I'm going to wipe a machine and give it a spin and see for myself. Could be interesting!

by ggm

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I'd love a simple explanation of the virt/bridge interface choices, and also why people pick NAT vs true address for their jails and virtuals.
Likewise for disk i/o -some people swear by 9P as a backing mechanism, some by ZVOL.

by sidkshatriya

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I love FreeBSD but Linux just provides every feature under the sun when it comes to virtualization. Do you find any missing features on bhyve ? Is bhyve reliable ? I can't imagine its been tested as thoroughly as KVM ...

by h4kunamata

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