Re: Hypervisor advice

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2017, Niels Dettenbach wrote:
> Am Montag, 31. Juli 2017, 12:01:40 CEST schrieb Stephen Borrill:
> > XenServer is free and all the major OSes run on it. Only downside is that
> > if you want to run its graphical management tool you'll need to run that
> > on Windows.
> >
> > https://xenserver.org/
> ...just to avoid typical misunderstandings for "newbies": XenServer is NOT
> Xen. XenServer is a (proprietary) "ready to run" Virtualization environment
> which "uses" Xen.
>
> Xen byself is Open Source  and NetBSD/Xen as "Hypervisor" / Dom0 is a Open
> Source implementation of Xen.

XenServer is Open Source too. It uses a different, and more capable, 
toolstack (xapi) to the traditional xentools toolstack.

https://xenserver.org/overview-xenserver-open-source-virtualization/source-code.html

It is tied to a Linux dom0 though, but you can even take an off-the-shelf 
CentOS install and add the relevant packages to make it XenServer-ish.

--
Stephen