David Robillard wrote:
Basically the only reason I have for using VM Tools is for the ability
of Vmotion and such with our ESX Server farm. It's really the only
benefit that the VM tools will give me on FreeBSD as all my virtual
machines which are running FreeBSD are servers and don't use any GUI's
either.
Currently there is nothing that doesn't run correctly under VMWare and I
have not seen any lack of performance or anything compared to a physical
machine. Maybe if enough of us push to have the VMWare Tools developed
and certified for use with VMWare that they might actually get started.
I might develop some sort of E-Petition for it, what you think?
Why not? I'm in the exact same position as you are with ESX & FreeBSD.
Hence I'd love to have VMWare Tools developed and certified for use
with FreeBSD. Actually, I'd really like to see VMWare Server and
Player certified for FreeBSD i386 and amd64.
VMWare is great stuff, I use and support all of it, but as a company they have
a bit of Fortune 500 tunnel vision. Their pricing is geared towards nickel
and diming large enterprises and their software support is geared too much
towards Windows.
Hyper-V will cut deeply into their market and they might regret being too
MS-centered. I already have potential customers asking "Gee, what about
Hyper-V. It's a lot cheaper than ESX and we don't really care about non-MS..."
Pricing ESX enterprise (with all the bells & whistles, including vmotion,
virtual center, HA, etc) at around US$500 per node and providing better
support for FreeBSD and other alternative OSes would go a LONG way towards
long-term competitiveness.
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