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VMware to Make Server Product Free (as in beer)
yahyamf writes "CNET News.com is reporting that in the face of increasing competition in the OS virtualization market VMWare is going to give away its GSX server product for free, in the hope that customers who try it will eventually migrate to the more powerful ESX server. The company recently released a free VMWare Player which could only run but not create virtual machines. The company faces competition from rival products such as SWsoft's Virtuozzo, Mircrosoft's Virtual Server, as well as open source software like Xen"
Qemu may not run as fast as vmware does now but it's here, it's free and you can change whatever you want about it. The same is not true for vmware
/. think they need to evangelize their current solution whenever a similar (usually better) product is mentioned? Personally? I just use another f-ing machine. It's just as fast as a real server, and I have no compatibility issues.. oh yeah. it *is* a real server.
If it does not run as fast, it's inferior. If it's inferior there is no reason to bring up it's use in this type of conversation. Why does everyone on
I would have thought the most scary thing facing VMware is Intel Virtualisation Technology - it makes what was previously very hard fairly simple. It also doesn't require the guest OSes to be hacked, ala Xen.
Oh wow. You actually believe that having Vanderpool means you won't need something like VMWare.
Well this will blow your mind - the latest VMWare has Vanderpool support. It doesn't make a great deal of difference by all accounts. Why would VMWare have Vanderpool support if Vanderpool makes VMWare obsolete. Doesn't make much sense does it?
I think you may be suffering from a hype overdose. I suggest you check in to your local ER for a stomach pump. Alternatively try being a little more cynical in future.
It'll let you assign an arbitrary MAC address. VMware won't. Thus, VMware is inferior in that regard. Why do proprietary fanatics think they need to be apologists for commercial software?
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
Acutally, it's Free... As in Freedom. You see VMware was free to give or not give their product away under the terms that they choose. That's freedom. They were not forced to give away their product as they would be in a Stallman Uptopia. Funny how some people equate forcing people to do something against their will as freedom.