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Could there theoretically be a swappable hypervisor for oxide some day? I'm imagining a oxide Linux distro of sorts running on the hosts, and using kvm for vms,
by moondev 1mo ago
Could there theoretically be a swappable hypervisor for oxide some day? I'm imagining a oxide Linux distro of sorts running on the hosts, and using kvm for vms, but still oxide control plane bits downstream. Then you get nested virt and gpu support, and could maybe even virtualize a traditional oxide host. Like running multi-host vcenter clusters inside a single esxi, amazingly powerful lab scenarios, teardown is even fun
- sudomateo 1mo agoTheoretically, yes. Practically, highly unlikely. Switching to Linux and KVM would gain the ecosystem benefits but Oxide would lose control of the host OS which can impact our security stance. Better to tightly integrate at this layer and expose the primitives that are needed. It's not impossible, but we're already maintaining the existing Helios host OS. Adding another wouldn't be beneficial.