@jaredbusch XCP-ng and XenOrchestra are both supported very well. Just today, someone using the latest version of VirtualBox had problems with importing a VirtualBox.OVA into XCP-ng using XenOrchestra. A dev looked at the problem and posted patches to github very same day. Unlike other vendors, you are dealing directly with developers as opposed to a call center "I do not want to be here. I just want to close this ticket" hourly employee.

@scottalanmiller As someone who has had to deal with vendor supplied hardware and software for a medical practice, I have come to firmly believe vendors are the enemy, a $very $very $expensive enemy.

@stacksofplates

XCP-ng and XE cli and XenOrchestra and XCPngCenter use the well known XEN API known as "XAPI".

Start a task using the XE command line and it shows up in the other task lists such as that in XenOrchestra.

Start a vm move from XCPNGcenter and it shows up under xe task-list.

Start a vm copy command from XenOrchestra and it will show up under xe task-list.

We use one set of tools to manage both old Citrix 6.5 hosts and the latest XCP-ng hosts.

Not sure how that compares to ProxMox/KVM. Do not know on the status of a real KVM API, but as a long time bash user, I would consider bash an API.

@francesco-provino Amazon Web Services may have a slight disagreement with you on whether KVM or XEN is suitable for business.

@Obsolesce in the long run, proprietary hardware and software causes the most issues.

@rjt dang, most of what I typed up disappeared upon submit and reformatted not how I intended. Will have to try again from a desktop.

@CCWTech
I rarely ever have had to power off a Linux OS if any kind - in 2 decades. Maybe because I never left Linux for the Mac. Definitely because i like troubleshooting and finding how things work more than actually using the pc for normal productivity. Maybe you know all about these, but did not see these mentioned:

CTRL-ALT+f[1-7]

* `ssh [email protected]` from another machine.  Again, helpful to set this up ahead of time before crash.  Copy your `~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub` public key to the nvidia box ahead of time either manually or `ssh-copy-id user@nvidiabox`
* `xrandr`
* **?REISUB** - Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring is the keystroke combo known only to contortionists.     Keep `CTRL-ALT-SysRq` held down and tap ?, r, e, i, s, u, b.     Do this from a virtual terminal ahead of time.   Press `?` key for menu.   Don’t press `b` key until you are sure you want to reBoot.

@JaredBusch,

ls file.pdf | Start-Process -verb print

does not necessarily
depend upon a PDF reader at all. It is dependent upon the verb “Print” existing and configured in the registry for Explorer.exe configuration entries residing in the registry.

• In Explorer.exe, navigate to any folder containing a file.pdf.
• Right click the file.
• Does the verb “Print” appear in the pop up context sensitive menu?
• if not, then you will get the behavior seen.

the Verbs “Open”, “Edit”, “RunAs”, and “Print” are windows Explorer.exe

@jaredbusch nfs on top of ZFS.
ZFS should be the underlying block/fs for everything whether a single hard drive, block storage like iSCSi, file storage such as NFS or CIFS. I like TrueNAS for this purpose. As you can see, I love ZFS. My problem is I also love CentOS. Need to figure out easy ways to get ZFS on CentOS. We should all write a letter to Larry asking him to open up the license.

@irj If one man IT shops are not embracing InfrastructureAsCode and devOps, then their job will be taken by the cloud. For the rest of us, we see plenty of automation in the same virtualization systems that Amazon uses. XenOrchestra builds some of that in from the get go.

@francesco-provino Amazon Web Services may have a slight disagreement with you on whether KVM or XEN is suitable for business.

@obsolesce At Microsoft's economy of scale, they make money when people buy new machines.

With the exception of mobile tabletpcs, we get by with used computers. But the security updates of the Win11 will probably mean we buy new desktops in the next year.

@scottalanmiller As someone who has had to deal with vendor supplied hardware and software for a medical practice, I have come to firmly believe vendors are the enemy, a $very $very $expensive enemy.

@stacksofplates

XCP-ng and XE cli and XenOrchestra and XCPngCenter use the well known XEN API known as "XAPI".

Start a task using the XE command line and it shows up in the other task lists such as that in XenOrchestra.

Start a vm move from XCPNGcenter and it shows up under xe task-list.

Start a vm copy command from XenOrchestra and it will show up under xe task-list.

We use one set of tools to manage both old Citrix 6.5 hosts and the latest XCP-ng hosts.

Not sure how that compares to ProxMox/KVM. Do not know on the status of a real KVM API, but as a long time bash user, I would consider bash an API.