Infrastructure, illuminated.
Quartz Systems builds networking software. Our current product is Lumen, a KVM hypervisor that installs as an appliance and manages your machines, networks, and storage from one console.
A KVM hypervisor built to illuminate your infrastructure.
Lumen installs as an appliance, a minimal AlmaLinux 10 system on ZFS, and puts virtual machines, networking, and storage behind one management console.
Virtual machines
Define, start, and remove machines from the console. Disks are ZFS zvols; changes to a running machine report what reached the guest and what waits for a restart.
Networking that heals
Bridges, bonds, and VLANs applied inside a checkpoint that reverts itself if nobody confirms it — a change that cuts your own path to the node heals on its own.
One console
A Rust control plane serves the web console on port 8443 — no Node.js on the appliance. Sign‑in goes through realms, starting with the OS's own accounts.
What we build
Virtualization platforms
Hypervisor appliances on KVM, libvirt, and ZFS — installers, control planes, and web consoles included.
Network management software
Operations consoles and fleet‑management tooling for routers, switches, and firewalls.
Systems software
Rust control planes, Linux appliance images, and build pipelines that ship as signed, reproducible artifacts.
Boot the ISO
UEFI‑only appliance media with everything on it — the install runs fully offline.
Answer four questions
Root password, time zone, management NIC, boot drive. Everything else is fixed appliance policy.
Open the console
Log in at https://<ip>:8443 and boot your first machine.
Built by engineers who used to be on call.
Quartz Systems is a small networking software development company. Lumen is open — read the code, build the ISO, and tell us what you run.