-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Gear wrote: | If you want to virtualise Windows, nothing comes close to VMware in | terms of functionality.
Paul, Could you please expand on this? I'm currently running 4x HP BL680c (16 cores, 64GB RAM) with Xen/QEmu to virtualise a number of Linux and Win2K3 machines. Xen/QEmu has thus far given me all the features I need, including live migration of virtual hosts, dynamic resource allocation (CPUs, RAM and disk added on the fly), as well as LVM or CLVM/GFS mounts from the company SAN to cluster commonly-accessed resources. I'm curious to know what it is that VMWare (I'm assuming ESX server) can do for you that Xen/QEmu or KVM/QEmu cannot. So far I've spoken to a few die-hard VMWare fans, and most of the time the features they seem to think are missing in other virtualisation systems are there, but they are just named something different. Once the "language barrier" is broken, most people quickly realise that Xen/QEmu and KVM/QEmu offer everything they need at $0. And before anyone says anything about VMWare being "free" - the "free" version is not only proprietary, but it is limited to 4 CPUs and 4GB RAM. And if you refer to the top of this email, you'll see I'm playing with much bigger toys. - -Dan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIonv/eFJDv0P9Qb8RAkc3AJwKZFPiU3cRIKPoAjK0eeUx/GmxcgCdFylb gvwZwgWVEGqhotjECgGkDqI= =hUMh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
