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The Citrix fuckery triggered the development of XCP-ng. I've been using the XCP-ng/Xen Orchestra stack for several years now, both in my homelab and professionally. It is so much easier to work with than KVM that it's part of my go-to toolkit.

If you have a spare machine or feel like picking up a tiny form factor i5 PC, you can play with Zen and Xen Orchestra fairly easily.

I once ran a three-node cluster of TinyFormFactor PCs running Xen, and it was A good framework for learning. The only reason I moved away from it is that the TFF PCs only had one gigabit Ethernet port and were limited to 32GB of RAM. I moved to more traditional small desktop PCs so I could add multiple 10-gigabit Ethernet interfaces and RAM.

Someday, I'll write up how I did an easy DMZ with XCP-ng.

[RealStickman_]

I use and like XCP-ng in my homelab, but the initial release was apparently in 2018. That's still ~15 years of Citrix fuckery that apparently birthed KVM.

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Yeah, Citrix really made a mess of things. If you look at the history of IT companies, it's impressive how many user/company decisions are made because of vendor fuckery.