Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Phillip, the creator of Phillux.

Given the recent shifts in the virtualization landscape (especially the VMware/Broadcom licensing changes), many teams and homelabbers are looking for leaner alternatives to complex enterprise hypervisors or bloated multi-node setups.

I built Phillux around a single core philosophy: powerful bare-metal virtualization with minimal operational ballast.

Key highlights of Phillux:

• Runs lean: One service, one binary, single-file backup on standalone hosts.

• Real Clustering & Live Migration: Cluster nodes side by side and live-migrate VMs over shared OCFS2 storage without downtime.

• Windows 11 out of the box: Automatic unattended setup with virtual TPM 2.0, UEFI, and Secure Boot pre-configured.

• Bulletproof networking: The firewall attaches directly to each individual guest's virtual interface—a misconfigured rule will never lock you out of the hypervisor host.

• Built-in Labs & Training: Automated spun-up practice environments with network latency simulation and step-by-step scoring.

• Anti-Ransomware emergency brake: Hypervisor-level write pattern monitoring to halt malicious encryption before disaster strikes.

You can try out a real, un-staged live instance directly on our website without signing up:

👉 https://phillux.software-hub.org

I would love to get your thoughts:

1. What is your biggest friction point with your current hypervisor (Proxmox / ESXi / Hyper-V)?

2. Which storage backends or guest OS integrations would you like to see next?

Thank you for your support and feedback!

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Looking for early users & feedback: Test Phillux (lean alternative to Proxmox/VMware)

Hey Product Hunt community!

With hypervisor setups getting heavier and virtualization licensing becoming increasingly expensive, I built Phillux to offer a lean, reliable bare-metal alternative for running VMs and LXC containers.

Key highlights:

Single service / binary deployment (no cluster bloat on standalone hosts)

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Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Phillip, the creator of Phillux.

I built Phillux around a single core philosophy: powerful bare-metal virtualization with minimal operational ballast.

Key highlights of Phillux:

• Runs lean: One service, one binary, single-file backup on standalone hosts.

• Real Clustering & Live Migration: Cluster nodes side by side and live-migrate VMs over shared OCFS2 storage without downtime.

• Windows 11 out of the box: Automatic unattended setup with virtual TPM 2.0, UEFI, and Secure Boot pre-configured.

• Bulletproof networking: The firewall attaches directly to each individual guest's virtual interface—a misconfigured rule will never lock you out of the hypervisor host.

• Built-in Labs & Training: Automated spun-up practice environments with network latency simulation and step-by-step scoring.

• Anti-Ransomware emergency brake: Hypervisor-level write pattern monitoring to halt malicious encryption before disaster strikes.

You can try out a real, un-staged live instance directly on our website without signing up:

👉 https://phillux.software-hub.org

I would love to get your thoughts:

1. What is your biggest friction point with your current hypervisor (Proxmox / ESXi / Hyper-V)?

2. Which storage backends or guest OS integrations would you like to see next?

Thank you for your support and feedback!

Phillux

Virtualization platform for virtual machines and containers

Virtualization platform for virtual machines and containers

Forum Threads

Looking for early users & feedback: Test Phillux (lean alternative to Proxmox/VMware)

Forum Threads

Looking for early users & feedback: Test Phillux (lean alternative to Proxmox/VMware)