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15 days agoFor people, businesses looking for an alternative there is XCPng + Xen Orchestra, by Vates, a French company selling support for their otherwise FOSS stack if I understand correctly. They’ve truly built something very well designed with an explicit migration path from vmware.
I’m not affiliated but I did explore it for my homelab. At the time they didn’t yet have a stable ZFS support, which they do now, so I went a different route but it’s really matured and they are good stewards of FOSS with monthly streams to discuss their changes and with a blog about their objectives.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjvBiVTxBt-madrH2Kt7iA
https://vates.tech/blog/migrating-from-vmware-or-hyper-v-to-vates-vms/
I know this is in the UK, but on this topic, in the EU, is it even legal to require to pay to avoid tracking? Tracking should require consent, but it should be non-forced, meaning, connecting the consent to some other condition, like paying, is likely not legal.