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I would not put blame on Synology as they use what they could from open source (KVM/Redhat).
It is QEMU based, not KVM. So its a type-2 hypervisor running in userland running hardware virtualization, not kernel-space type-1 hardware-assisted virtualization.

Dynamic Binary translation on a Celeron CPU is never going to set speed records. Now, if Synology could get KVM running and use that for VMM, then we'd be seeing usable W10 VMs on a DS918.

source: What Is the Difference between QEMU and KVM?
 
It is QEMU based, not KVM. So its a type-2 hypervisor running in userland running hardware virtualization, not kernel-space type-1 hardware-assisted virtualization.

Dynamic Binary translation on a Celeron CPU is never going to set speed records. Now, if Synology could get KVM running and use that for VMM, then we'd be seeing usable W10 VMs on a DS918.

source: What Is the Difference between QEMU and KVM?
Thank you for correction and clarification. Yes, type-1 would be highly welcomed although it seems that Synology will stick with current solution. As we learned yesterday, on future follow-on models we can expect a very small increment in CPU department (still 4 core low-powered SoC Celeron) so nothing big there either.
 
As we learned yesterday, on future follow-on models we can expect a very small increment in CPU department (still 4 core low-powered SoC Celeron) so nothing big there either.
Yep, that's why I have a couple of NUCs running VMware, and just use the NAS as an NFS datastore. Even an old Gen6 i3 NUC is a decent upgrade from the Celeron J-series. A Skull Canyon NUC is even better, and they sit VERY nicely on top of a DS918, just saying.... ;-)
 
Sounds cozy. I was hoping to snatch NUC with 2 built-in NICs so it can host Untangle FW, but so far I fell short of finding one. There are some cheaper Chinese boxes (QOTOM) which looks OK, but I'd prefer something built with some active support.
 

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