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

[Dan Swartzendruber]

> 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...)