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GirginOSVM: KVM virtualization with one central panel, now with a bare-metal installer ISO

Hi LES,

We build GirginOSVM, a KVM based virtualization platform for people who run their own nodes. One GirginOS Center panel manages many nodes, VMs, networks and backups. We are getting the next big piece ready, a bare-metal Node ISO, and wanted to show it here first and hear what you think.

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GirginOS Center

What the panel does today:

• Multi-node KVM: create, clone, resize and live-migrate VMs between nodes
• Real incremental backups (CBT): only changed blocks are sent, to SMB, SFTP, NFS, S3 or the Center itself
• Replication and DR: replicate VMs to another site and take over from a chosen recovery point
• High availability for clustered nodes
• Networking: IP pools, floating IPs, security groups (per-VM firewall), VPN gateways
• Built-in protection: SSH brute-force blocking, port gating and geo blocking on the nodes
• WHMCS integration for hosting providers
• Signed release channels (stable / canary / dev) for the panel and the node agent

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New: the Node ISO

Until now you installed the node agent on top of an existing AlmaLinux server. The ISO turns a bare server into a GirginOSVM node in a few minutes, ESXi style.

Disk setup with health info. Pick a system disk (or a mirror), build datastores with software RAID (RAID 0/1/5/6/10 with hot spare) and see SMART health before anything is erased. Disks you don't select are not touched.

Console (DCUI) and CLI. A text console on the server screen for network, storage, logs, joining the Center and updates. Everything is also available as gvmcli over SSH.

Own kernel and update channel. Nodes run kernel-gvm (Secure Boot signed). Updates come only from our signed channel into A/B system slots, so a bad update rolls back by booting the previous slot.

Ransomware recovery. The libvirt XML is treated as disposable. VM definitions are kept on the Center and next to the disks on the datastore, so if the host config is wiped you rebuild every VM with a few commands. Definitions are sanitised on rebuild: no host devices, no foreign disks.

Hardening. Datastores mounted nodev,nosuid,noexec, GRUB editing behind the root password, no serial console login, remote install only with a one-time PIN over TLS.

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Status

• Center and node agent: available now, docs at docs.girginos.net/en
• Node ISO: in testing, public beta soon. If you want to try it on a spare box, reply here or send me a DM.

Pricing: TODO

Questions, feature requests and criticism are all welcome.

Center screenshots are from our dev cluster with names and IPs anonymised. Installer, DCUI and recovery images are mockups of the beta.

girginos.com · Docs

AnthonySmith

Even though this is a bit of an advert, i will allow it, mainly because of the faces I was pulling trying to figure out how to say "girginos" grr ginos gur gnos girg in os

The link for a VPS panel probably should not lead people to an email service website.... just a thought.

Why would I use this over VirtFusion ?

girginos

@AnthonySmith said:
Even though this is a bit of an advert, i will allow it, mainly because of the faces I was pulling trying to figure out how to say "girginos" grr ginos gur gnos girg in os

The link for a VPS panel probably should not lead people to an email service website.... just a thought.

Why would I use this over VirtFusion ?

We can develop custom solutions.
For example, hosting companies typically do not monitor SMTP traffic; if a subnet or ASN is blacklisted, we can develop plugins such as an SMTP monitor.

We are also developing a zero-downtime HA engine that allows VMs to successfully switch to another node without shutting down—even on local disks without external storage—and without interrupting the SSH connection.

Furthermore, our internal network isolation is far superior to that of other virtualization solutions. IP spoofing, ARP attacks, and local attacks are blocked.

You don’t need to purchase switches or routers for L2 and L3 traffic. You can create rules based on location, operating system, node, and customer.

With PatchManager, you can send commands to all your VMs with a single click and make bulk changes.

BlaZe

It does look promising although the question remains the same "Why would I use this over other commercially available panels"

Also, since we are in 2026, just wanted to ask, is it vibe coded or AI-assisted?

Baby6

@BlaZe said:
It does look promising although the question remains the same "Why would I use this over other commercially available panels"

Also, since we are in 2026, just wanted to ask, is it vibe coded or AI-assisted?

Yes it is completely vibe coding. They just dumping a lot within few days. First they create Hosting panel and now Virtualization panel.

I am not against Ai coding. But focusing on too many things is not good.

They should have focus on a single panel and improve it further.

But instead they just using their tokens to create multiple panel and trying to sale them here.

SpeedBus

This seems a lot more like Proxmox I guess? Where it's a OS+Panel all-in-one? unlike say SolusVM/Virtualizor etc?

If I'm correct, what's the base OS this is built on Debian? or?

girginos

@SpeedBus said:
This seems a lot more like Proxmox I guess? Where it's a OS+Panel all-in-one? unlike say SolusVM/Virtualizor etc?

If I'm correct, what's the base OS this is built on Debian? or?

Thanks for the great question.

The system works similarly to SolusVM2.

First, you set up the center control panel; then, you can add nodes from within the center. Node installations are automated—you just need to enter the root credentials into the panel. Additionally, we are currently developing our own operating system, which will provide a robust security infrastructure to protect VMs on the second disk and defend against crypto attacks.

SpeedBus

@girginos said:

@SpeedBus said:
This seems a lot more like Proxmox I guess? Where it's a OS+Panel all-in-one? unlike say SolusVM/Virtualizor etc?

If I'm correct, what's the base OS this is built on Debian? or?

Thanks for the great question.

The system works similarly to SolusVM2.

First, you set up the center control panel; then, you can add nodes from within the center. Node installations are automated—you just need to enter the root credentials into the panel. Additionally, we are currently developing our own operating system, which will provide a robust security infrastructure to protect VMs on the second disk and defend against crypto attacks.

Aha okay, pretty neat!

@girginos said: Console (DCUI) and CLI. A text console on the server screen for network, storage, logs, joining the Center and updates.

Reminded me of ESXi for example, pretty nice