18 engineers on Hacker News describe using KVM first-hand: 4 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I use KVM+qemu on Linux and attach PCI devices like GPU and storage to the VMs.”
endorse · personal · washadjeffmad · 2021-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run ZFS and KVM, so moving a VM around is easy.”
endorse · production · mgbmtl · 2021-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using KVM with virt-manager UI (and virsh). Simple, solid, production ready, 100% free software.”
endorse · personal · wazoox · 2019-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“KVM is really easy to setup. ... in fact they run our production DBs right now.”
endorse · production · 4 yr · necro · 2013-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we switched from Xen to KVM I had to show ROI”
neutral · production · bandrami · 2026-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do have a Windows VM (on KVM) for older projects that run on .NET full.”
neutral · production · rvdginste · 2022-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Yes, job runs in a KVM VM. Nested KVM is supported on the hypervisor, but KVM is not enabled by default in guest OS”
neutral · production · thinkafterbef · 2021-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run 10 baremetal servers in CA and EU, using KVM, ZFS and "fallback IPs"”
neutral · production · mgbmtl · 2021-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had a protocol with a KVM virtual machine on Linux, in which the image is loaded into a new Windows 7 image”
neutral · personal · neilv · 2019-05-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've already pretty much transitioned everything over to libvirt/KVM on Linux hosts”
neutral · production · lambda · 2018-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it in my KVM PCI passthrough VM for some months and it works well.”
neutral · personal · deadcow · 2018-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“KVM based virtual machines for other services.”
neutral · production · reacharavindh · 2018-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“experiment from time to time with KVM and libvirt (which is another mess)”
neutral · personal · pecg · 2017-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use a mix of KVM and zones (both solaris and lx) for various workloads (around 400 zones/vms).”
neutral · production · cyberpunk · 2017-09-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“on our inhouse hardware we are varying between kvm and vmware.”
neutral · production · merb · 2015-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've just switched to an entirely virtualized infrastructure running under KVM a few months ago”
neutral · production · SwellJoe · 2012-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do all my dev work in Virtualbox or KVM vms.”
neutral · personal · rednaught · 2011-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run kvm on every box and run all customer and own apps in different VM”
neutral · production · rmoriz · 2011-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?