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Smashing Link
Jul 8, 2003

I'll keep chucking bombs at you til you fall off that ledge!
Grimey Drawer
Is there a particular reason that this thread and the other one (VM thread) are so focused on VMware/ESXi as opposed to KVM? Total newbie asking.

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Smashing Link
Jul 8, 2003

I'll keep chucking bombs at you til you fall off that ledge!
Grimey Drawer
Ok well I've never set up any kind of hypervisor before and my only VM experience is Fusion running on a Mac for work-specific apps. However I am intrigued by the possibility of setting up a server that could to run a few Mac OS and linux VMs to tinker with and ideally access them via cheap hardware such as a Chromebook. I am particularly interested in getting away from being tied to specific hardware ecosystems like Apple but would still like to be able to use Mac OS and Mac software. Would there be particular advantages/disadvantages to ESXi vs KVM vs other for very entry-level learning/tinkering purposes?

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