The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS [maintainers=@camillemndn @julienmalka] - GitHub - SaumonNet/proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS [maintainers=@camillemndn @julienmalka]
Hypervisor is a very specific term, that refers to the thing that controls all of the virtual machines, and dedicates hardware to those virtual machines.
Xen
HyperV
Qemu
KVM
As far as I’m aware, proxmox is an orchestration layer, much like OpenStack, around QEMU
Proxmox describes itself as an virtualization management platform.
Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete, open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. It tightly integrates the KVM hypervisor and Linux Containers (LXC), software-defined storage and networking functionality, on a single platform
Is proxmox a hypervisor? I thought it ran QEMU
Hypervisor is a very specific term, that refers to the thing that controls all of the virtual machines, and dedicates hardware to those virtual machines.
Xen
HyperV
Qemu
KVM
As far as I’m aware, proxmox is an orchestration layer, much like OpenStack, around QEMU
Yes, I’ve copied the title from their project.
Proxmox describes itself as an virtualization management platform.
[1] https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-virtual-environment/overview