Has anyone used Qubes to host virtual servers?

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I’ve been thinking.

It must be possible, maybe even commonly practised among the Qubes community, to use a high-end server machine installed with Qubes to host numerous virtual servers.

So I’m interested to know what anyone here has used theirs for to give me some ideas for if I ever have the opportunity to host virtual servers of my own.

Thanks.

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Why would you do that? Qubes OS isn’t very good at this.

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What would you recommend in this case? OpenStack?

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Xcp-ng is based on xen, and designed specifically for server virtualization.

https://xcp-ng.org/

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Not to host ‘numerous virtual servers’, but time to time I host one or two virtual servers on my setup.

For example, I hosted a lab server for students during a teaching session.
A ‘Appvm’ where I configured everything needed, and then I launched a ‘Disposablevm’ out of this ‘Appvm’.
So if the student break something I can quickly launch a new ‘Disposablevm’. and for the next session I can just relaunch a ‘Disposablevm’

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Proxmox - Powerful open-source server solutions or https://xcp-ng.org/

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How do you expose ports from your Dispvm? I miss easy way to do it. Do you have any script for that?

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I am using that for 4.1: Qubes-os port forwarding to allow external connections · GitHub
and that for 4.2: Qubes-os port forwarding to allow external connections · GitHub

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