From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in our office lab (iptechnics.com)

Bhyve doesn't feature nested virt though.

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 ...

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?

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.

Wow, TIL! https://github.com/AlchemillaHQ/Sylve

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo4oD5UON30

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.

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.

>A lot of our week is made up of the same kinds of small tasks: provision a VM, tweak storage settings, pass through a device, replicate a dataset, share a file, test an image, throw the machine away, do it again. None of that is exciting.

All I read is that they are still doing ClickOPS over DevSecOps!!

At no moment I heard automation, if you aren't using automation in 2026, your future in IT is cooked.

I run Proxmox at home for my homelab. I used to use VMs and now I have fully adopted Proxmox LXC containers (I hate Docker). I use Ansible to automate everything.

Last night I wanted to setup a notification service called Gotify, the Ansible playbook must:

1. Create a LXC container with specified resources

2. Prepare the system, network and what not

3. Give me a fully operational LXC and service running, go to the browser and voila.

All of that by running one command line, so now I can deploy it over and over.

I have setup a LXC container running Radarr, qBittorrent, Sonarr, Jackett, WireGuard VPN via Proton VPN, Iptables firewall aka kill-switch.

All of what you just read running within a LXC container fully automated via Ansible, OP is doing everything manually.

Even if I was running Sylve, Ansible would be doing the whole automation stuff.

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

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!

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.

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