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Virtualization Is Not All Roses

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the watch-out-for-those-thorns dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Vendors and magazines are all over virtualization like a rash, like it is the Saviour for IT-kind. Not always, writes analyst Andi Mann in Computerworld." I've found that when it works, it's really cool, but it does add a layer of complexity that wasn't there before. Then again, having a disk image be a 'machine' is amazingly useful sometimes.

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  1. Re:Yawn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    re your sig:

    An operating system should be like a light switch... simple, effective, easy to use, and designed for everyone.

    Did you know that in the US, light switches are traditionally installed with "up" being "on", while in England they are traditionally installed with "down" being "on"?

    Perhaps instead operating systems should be like nipples, everyone is born knowing how to use them, and they don't operate differently in different countries ;)

  2. Re:why are we reading this garbage? by ndansmith · · Score: 2, Funny

    how about an article that makes some recommendations on how to mitigate the problems they identify with virtualization, or point out some non obvious issues? Have it on my desk Monday morning.

  3. Virtualization Is Not All Roses? by wiredog · · Score: 2, Funny
    Is some of it crocuses? Or at least daffodils?

    Please tell me it's not daisies.

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  4. Re:Yawn by OldeTimeGeek · · Score: 3, Funny

    Has to work better than what I've tried. Besides, if I say I read it on Slashdot, they gotta submit to my advanced research skillz...

  5. Re:Yawn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If the only way you're looking at metrics on a system is running 'uptime' to get the load average...

    Well, friend, your IT department has a lot more issues than just problems with VMWare.

  6. Re:Yawn by rhaas · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you're blind, then why do you care about the light switch in the first place?

  7. Re:Yawn by suggsjc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait, I thought this conversation was about nipples...

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  8. Re:Yawn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Three.

  9. Re:Yawn by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Funny
    Steven Wright:

    I had a switch on the wall that didn't do anything. So every now and then, I'd flip it up and down.
    Then I got a letter from a woman in Germany, telling me: "Cut it out".
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