[Xastir] Time to discard VMware as an option?

[kg4giy at gmail.com]

Given the linux underpinnings of VMware, I cannot see it going away soon.  While I might want the vSphere environment to run on something other than Windows (I do), most of the core functions of virtualization run just fine on ESXi (which at least is given away, if not open source) and meets the needs of virtualization with out the complexity of hacking your own.  

I am not bashing KVM for example, but, for one, I don't have enough free time to be constantly building the car, stating with the transmission.  If I can toss a guest OS into the VM and get running, I will take it.  That gives me more time to work on what is important to me.  And as someone who has a marginal amount of time to devote to my hobby, every savings I can get is good.

DAVID

-----Original Message-----

From:  Amateur Radio WB8NUT <duffy at wb8nut.com>
Subj:  Re: [Xastir] Time to discard VMware as an option?
Date:  Fri 18. Dec 2009 16:22
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To:  Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>

Yes, Windows bashing. :-)

But VMware is far from the horse....it's more like the car. Your analogy 
suggests that VMware is old technology, however it is really state of 
the art and being constantly enhanced and made better. I can tell you 
that the VMware Player I just installed if far superior to the one I 
used just two to three years ago.

I would also suggest that many of the organizations that I have worked 
with evaluated the various virtualization technologies and many (not 
all, but the many is 90%+) came to the same conclusion, that VMware is 
the superior virtualization technology....meaning they chose the car and 
not the horse.

There is no real wrong virtualization technology if it works for you. 
But if the group is going to support something, doesn't it make sense to 
support what many have concluded is the best? The reason it has such 
critical mass is not that VMware is open source, not open source, etc. 
-- it is because it seems to be better than any other competing product 
- including the one from Microsoft, Citrix, Redhat, etc.

Those of you who work in IT probably know the primary virtualization 
technology in place at your company. I suspect is most cases it is VMware.

Duffy
www.wb8nut.com

Ray Wells wrote:
> I wonder where Linux would be today if everyone adopted a flash in the 
> pan attitude and stuck with Windoze?
>
> We had better not buy a car. After all, the horse has served us well 
> for centuries.
>
> Do you see where I'm heading?
>
> Ray vk2tv
>
> Amateur Radio WB8NUT wrote:
>> Here's my opinion. We, as a group, should only focus on VMware. If 
>> individuals want to go and use other virtualization engines, that's 
>> fine. The reason is simple.
>>
>> VMware is by far the leader. It is the only virtualization engine for 
>> most of the commercial enterprises and government entities not only 
>> in the U.S., but throughout the world.
>>
>> I am in IT sales and every company and government entity I work with 
>> is deploying or has deployed VMware alone.
>>
>> Why is this important? Simply, you follow the leader. In 25+ years of 
>> IT sales I have seen great technologies come and go usually because 
>> they could not establish a large market presence. Doesn't mean their 
>> technology was inferior to the leader, it just means that they could 
>> never get critical mass to keep their product viable.
>>
>> VMware is clearly the leader and we should stick with the leader 
>> since their chance of long term viability is greater than those 
>> technologies that are not being widely used.
>>
>> On another note, someone made a comment about registering an account 
>> now in order to download VMware. It used to be that you could 
>> download "player" without an account, but you needed to get a serial 
>> number to activate Player. Now you don't and that method is 
>> preferable to having to enter serial numbers. Once downloaded, you 
>> can install at will without needing multiple serial numbers. I much 
>> prefer their new method.
>>
>> JMHO
>>
>> Duffy
>> www.wb8nut.com
>>
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