Hey LET,

A while back we posted Hypervisor V2, a lightweight KVM control panel for low-end and high-end alike. Time for an update, because it grew well past "lightweight panel."

Hypervisor.io is now a self-hosted control panel for running a real KVM/QEMU cloud on your own hardware: one master, unlimited slave nodes across as many datacenters as you want. The pitch: the provisioning panel, the cloud-services layer, and the commercial layer all ship in one box, so you are not stitching five products together, and you are not standing up an OpenStack/CloudStack control plane to get there.

The headline: an AI assistant that actually provisions

Most panels give you a chatbot that links you to docs. Ours is wired into the control plane. You talk to it in plain English and it does the work:

• "Spin up 3 Ubuntu VMs, 4GB each, put them behind a load balancer with SSL on example.com"
• "Why is instance web-02 suspended?" "Resize my Postgres to 8GB and add a read replica"
• "Show me this month's bandwidth for customer X and suspend anything over quota"

It reads your real infrastructure state and executes real actions through the same API the UI uses. Nobody else in this category ships this. It is the difference between a panel you operate and a panel that operates with you.

Things competitors do not ship (straight from our compare sheet)

These are the rows where we are alone or clearly ahead. Full matrix: https://hypervisor.io/compare/

Capability	Hypervisor.io	Typical competitor
AI provisioning assistant	Yes	No
Native billing: meter to invoice to payment to tax	Yes	No
Built-in payment gateways (Stripe / PayPal / Razorpay)	Yes	No
Self-service customer storefront	Yes	No
Real-time WebSocket UI (live tasks, no refresh)	Yes	No
Managed Kubernetes + autoscaler	Yes	Partial / none
S3-compatible object storage for tenants	Yes	Partial / none
Managed databases (DBaaS)	Yes	Partial / none
Single-node capable (low footprint)	Yes	No

Everything else it does

Compute: full KVM lifecycle (deploy, reinstall, resize, snapshot, suspend, destroy), live migration + HA monitoring, VNC + browser SSH, Secure Boot, TPM, cloud-init, ISO mount, GPU passthrough, IPv4 + IPv6 (/64), reverse DNS.

Networking: VPC with VXLAN overlay, private subnets, NAT gateways, VPN gateways, security groups, IP sets, HAProxy load balancers with SSL termination + health checks.

Platform services: managed MySQL / MariaDB / PostgreSQL with replicas and point-in-time restore, managed Kubernetes, tenant S3 object storage, streaming backups to S3 / SFTP / FTP / rclone, volume snapshots.

Commercial layer: built-in billing + payments, hourly metering, multi-currency, tax invoicing, auto suspend/resume on balance, self-service storefront. Or bring your own: WHMCS / Blesta / HostBill / Paymenter modules with SSO.

Everything is exposed over a full REST API (OpenAPI docs), so anything the UI or the AI does, you can script.

• 30-day free trial, full platform, one hypervisor, no card required
• Annual billing saves the equivalent of 2 months/year
• Optional pro-support add-ons up to an Enterprise SLA tier

How it compares (fairly)

These are all good tools. The difference is scope, not quality.

• OpenStack / CloudStack: scale to huge fleets and meter well, but you still bolt on invoicing, payments, and a storefront yourself.
• VMware: the enterprise incumbent, post-Broadcom pricing is the conversation. We are a KVM alternative on hardware you already own.
• Virtualizor: a solid multi-hypervisor VPS panel. We lean harder into the cloud-services layer (managed K8s, tenant S3, VPC, DBaaS) plus billing and the AI assistant.
• Solus: a polished KVM panel that pairs with WHMCS. We ship billing and the cloud-services layer as native parts rather than dependencies, though WHMCS still works if you prefer it.

Short version: if you only need VM provisioning, the established panels are great. If you want VPC + LB + managed DB + K8s + object storage + billing + an AI that runs it, under one login, that is the gap we fill. As the site puts it: have a billable KVM cloud, storefront, and AI assistant running the same day.

Try it

• Site + features: https://hypervisor.io/
• Docs: https://docs.hypervisor.io
• Comparison sheet: https://hypervisor.io/compare/
• 30-day free trial, no card: start from the site

Happy to answer anything in the thread, take feature requests, and own any rough edges you find.