# [OmniOS-discuss] Shopping for an all-in-one server

Dan Swartzendruber dswartz at druber.com
Mon Jun 2 18:16:42 UTC 2014

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    > OTOH, the only reason to use ESXi in the first place would be if you want
    > to virtualize something that doesn’t fit well onto Illumos KVM.

    Maybe I am demonstrating my ignorance here, but another might be: a decent
    GUI.  This is one of the places where kvm falls down badly, IMO.  You seem
    have have three choices:

    1. Go the CLI route.

    2. Install a distro with a GUI, and use whatever builtin tools support the
    virtualization environment.

    3. Install a distro with some kind of web-based GUI.  Last time I looked
    (a year or so ago), this category was filled with options that were either
    very heavyweight for a small config (nebula, openstack, etc...), were not
    under active development, or had various issues that made me walk away
    quickly (one in particular used fedora as the distro - seriously???)
    proxmox is kvm-based with a decent web gui but does have some oddities and
    quirks I did not like (I used it for a couple of years before punting...)

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