🦾 Eight Best Linux VM Managers Compared – Desktop to Homelab // DJ Ware
Gabriele Svelto
boosted
The flood of #enshittification that #Broadcom unleashed upon #VMware and its customers after acquiring it, and its seismic waves in the whole IT supply chain, are a testament of how bad managers who seek for short-term revenue hikes without thinking of the long-term are walking ticking bombs for the tech industry.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/15/dell_vmware_claim_tesco_case/
We all know what Broadcom did to VMware after acquiring it. VMware was turned overnight into Broadcom’s cash cow, they hiked prices by 3x in some cases, scrapped perpetual licenses, forced all customers into more expensive subscriptions, said that they only wanted to focus on the most profitable customers and fuck everyone else, all while worsening customer support and providing literally zero added value and features to the product.
Basically a parasitic acquisition solely focused on sucking all the vital lymph out of another product - pure Oracle textbook.
When you play such stunts with individual customers, unfortunately, it works most of the times. Individuals don’t have much leverage, nor choice if there is too much concentration in a certain market. They may complain, but often they swallow the bitter bite.
Things are different when you play them in huge corporate products that are an integral part of the IT infrastructure we all use.
It turns out that among the businesses who were disgruntled when Broadcom suddenly cancelled their VMware perpetual licenses there was Tesco.
But Tesco didn’t acquire VMware licenses directly from Broadcom, of course. They acquired them through a reseller of hardware and software licenses - Computacenter. So Tesco sued them instead for failing to provide them the licenses that they were contractually bound to provide.
Computacenter, on its hand, didn’t acquire VMware licenses directly either. They were provided with the Dell servers they sold, as Dell was an authorized VMware reseller. So Computacenter sued Dell.
Dell, on its hand, says that it has no fault if Broadcom has suddenly changed VMware’s pricing model, and that they are the ones who broke contracts with the whole downstream supply chain. So Dell sued Broadcom.
And there we go. A chain of 3 lawsuits between 4 giants across the whole IT supply chain in order to call a parasitic company accountable.
What a mess. But I guess that the manager who proposed to squeeze annual recurring revenue got his/her fat quarterly bonus home after things seemed to work for the first year.
This is also your daily reminder that as a sysadmin you must use only FOSS products supported by the community and by strong foundations - and contribute back to them once their success becomes your success too.
Enough with the “but stability - but support - but licenses - but my manager” corporate bullshit.
The cost of writing your own little qemu CI/CD pipeline to spin up your virtual machines is much lower than the risk of your corporate subscription getting suddenly enshittified by chains of wrong financial incentives at any place in your upstream supply chain, and having to spend years of tears on expensive long-chain lawsuits.
And, even if things go bad, the cost of migrating out of proprietary and non-standard implementations is usually much higher than the cost of migrating to a compatible fork.
1/mehr
Was hat das österreichische Wirtschaftsministerium mit dem #CCC gemeinsam? Na das da:
#Di_day #digitalesouveränität #DiD
Die erste Phase des Umstiegs auf freie Software ist mit der Migrattion zur #Nextcloud bereits abgeschlossen. Noch in diesem Quartal wird #Microsoft Sharepoint dekommissioniert
Es ist das Pilotprojekt dem alle anderen Ministerien in Ösi-Land folgen werden.
1 more link(s)
2/mehr
Im nächsten Schritt wird #VMware rausgeschmissen und durch die Open-Source-Lösung #proxmox ersetzt, die in Österreich entwickelt wurde.
Paradoxerweise spielt sich das alles in 1em ÖVP-geführten Ministerium ab. Der zuständige Staatssekrär für Digitales - ebenfalls ÖVP- hat // dazu mit EU-Kommissarin Henna Virkkunen [EPP] eine EU-Resolution zur digitalen Souveränität durchgesetzt.
The flood of #enshittification that #Broadcom unleashed upon #VMware and its customers after acquiring it, and its seismic waves in the whole IT supply chain, are a testament of how bad managers who seek for short-term revenue hikes without thinking of the long-term are walking ticking bombs for the tech industry.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/15/dell_vmware_claim_tesco_case/
We all know what Broadcom did to VMware after acquiring it. VMware was turned overnight into Broadcom’s cash cow, they hiked prices by 3x in some cases, scrapped perpetual licenses, forced all customers into more expensive subscriptions, said that they only wanted to focus on the most profitable customers and fuck everyone else, all while worsening customer support and providing literally zero added value and features to the product.
Basically a parasitic acquisition solely focused on sucking all the vital lymph out of another product - pure Oracle textbook.
When you play such stunts with individual customers, unfortunately, it works most of the times. Individuals don’t have much leverage, nor choice if there is too much concentration in a certain market. They may complain, but often they swallow the bitter bite.
Things are different when you play them in huge corporate products that are an integral part of the IT infrastructure we all use.
It turns out that among the businesses who were disgruntled when Broadcom suddenly cancelled their VMware perpetual licenses there was Tesco.
But Tesco didn’t acquire VMware licenses directly from Broadcom, of course. They acquired them through a reseller of hardware and software licenses - Computacenter. So Tesco sued them instead for failing to provide them the licenses that they were contractually bound to provide.
Computacenter, on its hand, didn’t acquire VMware licenses directly either. They were provided with the Dell servers they sold, as Dell was an authorized VMware reseller. So Computacenter sued Dell.
Dell, on its hand, says that it has no fault if Broadcom has suddenly changed VMware’s pricing model, and that they are the ones who broke contracts with the whole downstream supply chain. So Dell sued Broadcom.
And there we go. A chain of 3 lawsuits between 4 giants across the whole IT supply chain in order to call a parasitic company accountable.
What a mess. But I guess that the manager who proposed to squeeze annual recurring revenue got his/her fat quarterly bonus home after things seemed to work for the first year.
This is also your daily reminder that as a sysadmin you must use only FOSS products supported by the community and by strong foundations - and contribute back to them once their success becomes your success too.
Enough with the “but stability - but support - but licenses - but my manager” corporate bullshit.
The cost of writing your own little qemu CI/CD pipeline to spin up your virtual machines is much lower than the risk of your corporate subscription getting suddenly enshittified by chains of wrong financial incentives at any place in your upstream supply chain, and having to spend years of tears on expensive long-chain lawsuits.
And, even if things go bad, the cost of migrating out of proprietary and non-standard implementations is usually much higher than the cost of migrating to a compatible fork.
Freitag: Kritik an eID-Karte wegen Geldwäsche, neues OpenAI-Modell als Bürohilfe
eID-Karte zu einfach zu ergaunern + GPT-5.2 für Profi-Nutzer + Disney gegen Google-KI wegen Copyright + Kritik an EU wegen VMware + Roboter-Bewegungen erklärt
#Broadcom #ChatGPT #elektronischerPersonalausweis #EU #GenerativeAI #Google #hoDaily #IdentityManagement #Journal #KünstlicheIntelligenz #OpenAI #Roboter #Urheberrecht #VMware #news
Broadcoms VMware-Übernahme: EU-Kommission soll Warnsignale ignoriert haben
Der Cloud-Verband CISPE greift die EU-Kommission vor Gericht scharf an: Bei der Genehmigung der VMware-Akquisition durch Broadcom habe die Aufsicht versagt.
#Broadcom #EU #Kartellrecht #VMware #Wettbewerb #Wirtschaft #news
Martin Holland
and 1 other
boosted
„Brickstorm“-Hintertür in VMware vSphere: Warnung vor Angriff aus China
Die CISA und die NSA warnen vor einem hochentwickelten Angriff auf Technik von VMware, mit dem sich Akteure aus China einen dauerhaften Zugang sichern könnten.
„Brickstorm“-Hintertür in VMware vSphere: Warnung vor Angriff aus China
Die CISA und die NSA warnen vor einem hochentwickelten Angriff auf Technik von VMware, mit dem sich Akteure aus China einen dauerhaften Zugang sichern könnten.
Michael Dexter
and 1 other
boosted
We at @credativde@mastodon.social are launching our very first & free open-source virtualization gathering in Germany, Mönchengladbach.
This new community event brings together everyone who’s passionate about open virtualization technologies, whether it’s Proxmox VE, XCP-ng, bhyve, Harvester, or any of the countless projects that make open infrastructure thrive. It’s about sharing experiences, learning from each other, and connecting with those who build and rely on open platforms every day.
We start the evening with two talks:
* "Enterprise-Ready? How people use Proxmox VE & Ceph" by Ronald Otto from Tuxis B.V.
* "BoxyBSD – Creating a free VPS hosting platform" by Florian Paul Azim Hoberg from credativ GmbH
Afterwards, the space opens up for discussion, networking, and casual chats. If you like to join with a talk, please feel free to reach out to me.
More details can be found here:
* https://gyptazy.com/open-source-virtualization-gathering-in-germany-monchengladbach/
* https://www.credativ.de/blog/aktuelles/open-source-virtualization-gathering-dezember-2025/
* https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/monchengladbach-oss-virtualization-gathering/events/311284475/
Tags: #meet #meetup #gathering #virtualization #virtualisation #container #kvm #proxmox #proxlb #xcpng #xen #bhyve #sylve #klee #kleene #incus #vmware #alternatives #opensource #free
We at @credativde@mastodon.social are launching our very first & free open-source virtualization gathering in Germany, Mönchengladbach.
This new community event brings together everyone who’s passionate about open virtualization technologies, whether it’s Proxmox VE, XCP-ng, bhyve, Harvester, or any of the countless projects that make open infrastructure thrive. It’s about sharing experiences, learning from each other, and connecting with those who build and rely on open platforms every day.
We start the evening with two talks:
* "Enterprise-Ready? How people use Proxmox VE & Ceph" by Ronald Otto from Tuxis B.V.
* "BoxyBSD – Creating a free VPS hosting platform" by Florian Paul Azim Hoberg from credativ GmbH
Afterwards, the space opens up for discussion, networking, and casual chats. If you like to join with a talk, please feel free to reach out to me.
More details can be found here:
* https://gyptazy.com/open-source-virtualization-gathering-in-germany-monchengladbach/
* https://www.credativ.de/blog/aktuelles/open-source-virtualization-gathering-dezember-2025/
* https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/monchengladbach-oss-virtualization-gathering/events/311284475/
Tags: #meet #meetup #gathering #virtualization #virtualisation #container #kvm #proxmox #proxlb #xcpng #xen #bhyve #sylve #klee #kleene #incus #vmware #alternatives #opensource #free
heise online
boosted
Warnung vor Angriffen auf Lücken in VMware und XWiki
Angreifer missbauchen Schwachstellen in VMware und XWiki, warnt die IT-Sicherheitsbehörde CISA. Updates stopfen die Lücken.
#Cyberangriff #Exploit #IT #Security #Sicherheitslücken #Updates #VMware #news
Warnung vor Angriffen auf Lücken in VMware und XWiki
Angreifer missbauchen Schwachstellen in VMware und XWiki, warnt die IT-Sicherheitsbehörde CISA. Updates stopfen die Lücken.
#Cyberangriff #Exploit #IT #Security #Sicherheitslücken #Updates #VMware #news
Stefano Marinelli
boosted
Still looking how to balance your VMs in #Proxmox clusters? #ProxLB 1.1.9 is here!
This release adds features that were requested during the #DutchProxmoxDay2025 which was hosted by our friends Tuxis (tuxis.nl). I'm hearing your feedback and all your feedback from the community and user base is important to me, so let me introduce the following new features:
* Add an optional memory balancing threshold
* Add affinity/anti-affinity support by pools
* Add pressure (PSI) based balancing for memory, cpu, disk
* Pressure (PSI) based balancing for nodes
* Pressure (PSI) based balancing for guests
You can simply upgrade via APT or by obtaining the latest Docker/Container image. PSI based balancing (still in beta) requires Proxmox VE 9 or greater.
Thanks to my employer
@credativ@mastodon.social (https://credativ.de) who provides me the required time to work at this.
GitHub: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB
GitHub Release: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB/releases/tag/v1.1.9
Author: @gyptazy@gyptazy.com
#PVE #Proxmox #Community #OpenSource #FOSS #gyptazy #DutchProxmoxDay #coding #projects #virtualization #vms #hypervisor #homelab #vmware #alternatives #pve #balancing
Still looking how to balance your VMs in #Proxmox clusters? #ProxLB 1.1.9 is here!
This release adds features that were requested during the #DutchProxmoxDay2025 which was hosted by our friends Tuxis (tuxis.nl). I'm hearing your feedback and all your feedback from the community and user base is important to me, so let me introduce the following new features:
* Add an optional memory balancing threshold
* Add affinity/anti-affinity support by pools
* Add pressure (PSI) based balancing for memory, cpu, disk
* Pressure (PSI) based balancing for nodes
* Pressure (PSI) based balancing for guests
You can simply upgrade via APT or by obtaining the latest Docker/Container image. PSI based balancing (still in beta) requires Proxmox VE 9 or greater.
Thanks to my employer
@credativ@mastodon.social (https://credativ.de) who provides me the required time to work at this.
GitHub: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB
GitHub Release: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB/releases/tag/v1.1.9
Author: @gyptazy@gyptazy.com
#PVE #Proxmox #Community #OpenSource #FOSS #gyptazy #DutchProxmoxDay #coding #projects #virtualization #vms #hypervisor #homelab #vmware #alternatives #pve #balancing
Softwarelizenzen: Bei Microsoft wechselt die Ampel auf Grün, Broadcom bleibt Rot
Das 3. europäische Wettbewerbsbarometer von Cloud-Anbietern unterstreicht verschärfte Probleme bei Broadcom. Lizenzbedingungen von SAP geben Anlass zur Sorge.
#Broadcom #CloudComputing #Hosting #IT #Microsoft #VMware #news
Stefano Marinelli
boosted
DRS but for #Proxmox? Yes!
With #ProxLB (free and #opensource / #GPLv3) you can get something which comes close to it - also featuring things like affinity/anti-affinity rules, node pinning, grouping and maintenance mode for multiple nodes. And if you’re even more interested, there’ll be a talk about my project at the #DutchProxmoxDay next month :)
#drs #loadbalancing #gpl #gpl3 #pve #proxmox9 #virtualization #alternatives #vmware #esx #KVM
https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB
DRS but for #Proxmox? Yes!
With #ProxLB (free and #opensource / #GPLv3) you can get something which comes close to it - also featuring things like affinity/anti-affinity rules, node pinning, grouping and maintenance mode for multiple nodes. And if you’re even more interested, there’ll be a talk about my project at the #DutchProxmoxDay next month :)
#drs #loadbalancing #gpl #gpl3 #pve #proxmox9 #virtualization #alternatives #vmware #esx #KVM
https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB
fresco
boosted
