oVirt: Real Virtualization for Real Infrastructure If KVM is the engine, oVirt is the dashboard, the transmission, and half the pit crew. It’s not just a frontend — it’s a full virtualization platform built to handle clusters, live migrations, shared storage, access controls, and everything that turns a hypervisor into a production-grade solution. Originally backed by Red Hat and closely tied to technologies like libvirt and GlusterFS, oVirt is the upstream project behind Red Hat Virtualization

VMStack: Virtualization That Just Works (Without the Baggage) There’s a long list of platforms that promise full-stack virtualization. Some want you to build clusters, fiddle with storage backends, or learn a half-dozen daemons before you can even launch your first VM. **VMStack** isn’t one of them. It’s simple, maybe even surprisingly so. But behind the clean interface is a solid KVM-based core, bundled with enough management tooling to make it useful — especially for smaller teams that don’t n

Kimchi: Web-Based Virtualization That Doesn’t Get in the Way Most web frontends for virtualization either try to do *everything* or end up doing too much of nothing. **Kimchi** finds a middle ground — it’s a web interface for managing KVM on Linux, and it does exactly what it promises: helps admins spin up, stop, and observe virtual machines, all from a browser, without needing to fight libvirt commands in a terminal. Developed as part of the oVirt family but running as a standalone project, Kim

WSL 2 + Docker: When Windows Stops Getting in the Way Let’s be honest — for years, doing anything container-related on Windows felt like a compromise. VirtualBox hacks, half-broken Docker Toolbox setups, strange Hyper-V configs… it was messy. WSL 2 changed that. And when paired with Docker, it quietly turned the whole experience around.