feature request to deploy to Hivelocity.net provider about ops HOT 4 CLOSED

ops really only targets providers that deploy vms, I didn't immediately see something in their api that would provide this although I saw mention of a vps; I do see proxmox which I know we have users that use that; ops itself could be provisioned on top as well

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For the "bare metal" / "dedicated server" use-case, how much difficulty do you anticipate Ian (@eyberg) in deploying a single nanovms image as the one and only runtime process on the physical server? We have some possible uses where the physical machine would boot using the iPXE approach. ( https://ipxe.org ). But instead of an OS, we want to run a nanovms image containing our server process. Or, would we have to deploy some hypervisor, even if we only want to have a dedicated single process under it? Is this something that we can do if we handle the deployment (without help from ops)? Or is that ill-advised to try to deploy nanovms images to run as the single process booting on dedicated hardware, with or without ops?

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right now we don't have any plans to support bare metal installs like this as that would imply a bunch of other mgmt related tooling that would not be present (eg: start/stop the server, configure networking, deploy a new one, access rights, etc.) it also breaks the assumptions we have that it is only being deployed as a vm which means having to support a ton of random hardware drivers, nanos is intended to always be ran on top of a hypervisor of some kind - whether it's public cloud or something under your own control (eg: proxmox/vsphere/etc.)

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Thank you for the information Ian @eyberg . I certainly understand not desiring to support a large number of drivers. That said, I will close this request, and instead look for the smallest/simplest supported hypervisor layer that is currently supported, with the understanding we still want just one server process per physical machine. Any comments or pointers you may have are welcomed.

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