linuxworld.com.au — VMware has slammed Microsoft's tie-up with open source virtualization developer XenSource, announced earlier this week, calling it a "one-way street," and accusing XenSource of betraying its open source roots.
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hickeroarJul 20, 2006
Who is VMWARE (a maker of CLOSED source software) to yell at an open source company for changing the way they do things? If VMWARE was open source they might have a right to say something...but they aren't. They're simply afraid of going out of business due to the MS alternative.
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drahkarJul 20, 2006
@tucsonwcHe just said it was being tested on x86 Macs.Makes sense, the only thing holding them back was the hardware. Macs were too small of a market at the time to develop a whole product line of this magnitude because it required a complete rewrite of the code. Now that they have transitioned to Intel hardware the developing for it is considerably easier.
escamilloJul 20, 2006
Is that "fear" I smell from the VMWare offices?
bacirriuJul 21, 2006
I'm on the Microsoft side, for once. Good job Microsoft.
spiffytechJul 21, 2006
If you want to run a Linux distro from inside Windows XP, I would absolutely recommend VMWare Workstation over Xen. Xen is designed more for server enviroments and such, whereas VMWare Workstation has the boot-and-go ease and ability neccessary to use a Linux distro as a work environment. Even if you want to use the Linux distro as a server, I'd still reccomend VMWare Workstation as your VM software, as I did. Xen is geared more towards the enterprise-type environment, as opposed to an individual user's environment. In addition to that, Xen is very unmanagable, and you're lucky to get a single VM running, in my experience. It's still very buggy, with few properly-functioning management tools.
janicJul 21, 2006
You know...With the big deal that Novell is making about supporting SLES and OES (SLES+Setware services) on xen, it just occured to me that this may actually be so Microsoft can say "See, now you can even run your legacy netware stuff on your shiny new windows server.Crap.
qnetterJul 25, 2006
Um, they didn't "choose to use Linux for their ESX products" -- unless you mean, as compared to BSD, which is a hair-split. Ever since before ESX 1.0 was released, there has been customer outcry and internal business sentiment to use a Windows console OS, but the hackage they need to do to the console OS kernel -- gee, just like a Xen domain 0! -- makes it impossible to do without source, so they limp by and claim "I meant to do that," in true Pee-Wee Herman fashion.