I recently started at a new role where they offer a VMware OVA disk image for their software solution (basically just Ubuntu running Apache/MySQL/Ruby on Rails)

I recently started at a new role where they offer a VMware OVA disk image for their software solution (basically just Ubuntu running Apache/MySQL/Ruby on Rails) They were preparing to spin up an entire EC2 dedicated instance plus purchase another VMware license for me to onboard with for learning. I was absolutely pleading with them to just let me use KVM, I already have a Linux box at home I can just run the VM as-is for free After pressing the CEO about it he finally relented and let me set it up on my little home server. From what I can tell thanks to virtio and KVM treating Linux as a first class citizen it actually feels faster than the VMware setup I'm absolutely chomping at the bit to push for us to become "hypervisor agnostic" and bring on Hyper-V and Proxmox at the very least. There's no sense in being tied to VMware anymore as customers are scrambling to escape it