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.

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.

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?

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.

Bhyve doesn't feature nested virt though.

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

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

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 ...