I wish the Oxide web site had a little more detail on the software running on th...

steveklabnik · on July 10, 2022

We’re redoing the website, though I’m not sure if this specific information will be on it.

The host is using Illumos and bhyve for hypervisor stuff. I don’t work on that part of the stack personally so that’s the most detail I can give you.

bcantrill · on July 10, 2022

Just to add some additional detail: the control plane (Omicron[0] -- named before the COVID variant!), the user-level portion of the hypervisor (Propolis[1]) and the storage subsystem (Crucible[2]) are all open source. And while our focus has been building them for our own product, we know that they are at least usable outside of Oxide![3][4]

[0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron

[1] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis

[2] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/crucible

[3] https://artemis.sh/2022/03/14/propolis-oxide-at-home-pt1.htm...

[4] https://artemis.sh/2022/06/14/oxide-crucible.html