Harvester by SUSE
Ranked 13 of 16 hypervisors by recommenders
Free SUSE platform on Kubernetes, seen as a Proxmox alternative and backed by Rancher. Critics say it suits datacenters better than small sites and is complicated to maintain.
Free SUSE platform on Kubernetes, seen as a Proxmox alternative and backed by Rancher. Critics say it suits datacenters better than small sites and is complicated to maintain.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 86%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Less suited to smaller environments
“Works fine if you’re hosting datacenters or whatever, haven’t seen it be suitable in smaller manufacturing environment”
Comment from 11 Mar 2026 in “EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say” Complicated and fragile to maintain
“much more complicated to use and fragile to maintain”
Comment from 5 Nov 2025 in “Preventing Kubernetes from pulling the pause image from the internet”
Other hypervisors people recommend
The four most recommended other hypervisors, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proxmox VE | 208 | 60 | 78% | 12 | 3 yrs16 owners | Approved |
| Incus | 90 | 8 | 92% | 12 | 6 mo5 owners | Approved |
| KVM | 32 | 9 | 78% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Hyper-V | 17 | 9 | 65% | 9 | — | — |
| Harvester by SUSEThis page | 6 | 1 | 86% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“oh this "Harvester" game looks intriguing :)”
“They own Rancher and Harvester. My brother, this is a good enough reason for someone to pick it up.”
“Works fine if you’re hosting datacenters or whatever, haven’t seen it be suitable in smaller manufacturing environment”
“I mostly like their use of an immutable OS as base layer for the virtualization”
“Something like harvester is pretty close IMO to getting a kubernetes alternative to Proxmox/open cloud.”
“much more complicated to use and fragile to maintain”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.