# Sylve 17 Hacker News commenters recommended Sylve and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Free FreeBSD virtualization platform, a Proxmox alternative with ZFS at its core and template-based VM deployment. Caveat: an early project, with few ready-made packages and some networking problems reported. ## Why people recommend it - Smooth, clean, modern interface (5 comments): "we felt was missing, and built something that feels smoother for our workflows" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577751)) "Even at such an early stage Sylve already looks like it's clicking nicely" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600999)) "Sylve with Svelte stays smooth even on large clusters." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562662)) - Alternative to Proxmox and TrueNAS (2 comments): "looks like a possible sweet spot replacement for both proxmox and TrueNAS" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48680936)) "This is a welcome alternative in the space." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559882)) - Easy to use, rarely needs CLI (2 comments): "With Sylve, you rarely need to touch the CLI." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577653)) "Sylve makes them really easy to use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567937)) - Templates and jail-based isolation (2 comments): "you can create a template out of Sylve (with networking, storage, CPU config etc.) and then deploy that template as many times as you want" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581212)) "you can already run Sylve inside jails. That gives you multiple isolated "nodes" on a single machine" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577698)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Proxmox VE](https://hackerapproved.com/p/proxmox-ve.md): 208 recommend - [Incus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/incus.md): 90 recommend - [KVM](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kvm.md): 32 recommend - [bhyve hypervisor](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bhyve.md): 17 recommend - [Xen hypervisor](https://hackerapproved.com/p/xen.md): 12 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Sylve", https://hackerapproved.com/p/sylve/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).