I used to serve a 2mb file of zeros at favicon.ico. I even used a bogus MIME type to give MSIE a fighting chance. Of course MSIE ignored the MIME type and charged ahead anyway.
And do not confuse organizing with professional licensing. They are two completely different and unrelated things. I'm not a fan of licensing in other than safety-related positions.
Hell, yes. Developers and engineers too.
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I'd really like to see professional unions for IT and software professionals. Like airline pilots, university faculty, doctors, and so on. It would benefit almost everyone. Obviously, engineers would have some leverage (finally!) in a profession where 1-2 year jobs are the current reality; but requiring employers to hire with a longer-term outlook, and defined work rules, would impose some proper planning and scheduling, and a union contract could put real constraints on the substitution of contractors, vendors, and outsourced/offshore labor for positions that should belong to employees.
It's taken me a while to come around to this position (I've been in the industry for 20 years), but I believe that without question it's the right thing in the 21st century.
Unfortunately there's not a mouthpiece for a giant multibillion dollar industry available to sue people who "make available" personal information.
Nor are their investigators roaming the internet making warrantless searches for offenders.
Nor are there lobbyists sending Congressmen on junkets to ensure that maximally favorable and punitive laws are passed.
And when the government serves up your personal information, even through a contractor, you usually can't sue anyone, and if you do, it takes most of a decade. And you definitely can't bully the government for a settlement.
When you say "VMware" do you mean Workstation/Fusion? Or ESX/ESXi? Workstation and Fusion work fine on laptops. 1GB of RAM is pretty much a baseline though (I have 4GB in my MBP for Fusion).
There are people who have been able to run ESX on a laptop. I don't know how complicated it was to get going though. However, what you would do with a laptop running ESX, I'm not really sure. There's certainly nothing to look at on the screen other than a command line (ESX) or a BIOS-like config screen (ESXi).
As an example of Firewire audio which is definitely not intended primarily for LAPTOPS (I don't know where you came up with this), there's the eternally popular MOTU 828: http://www.motu.com/products/motuaudio/828mk3/. No one's going to be running this over USB any time soon.
For large or sustained transfers, Firewire has 2-4x the throughput of USB 2.0. Firewire 400 is almost always faster than USB 2.0 in any application even though USB 2.0 has a nominally higher speed.
Scanners that can pump out 100MB high res scans will also run faster over Firewire. Considering that a v700 is only about $600 this isn't crazy talk.
Geez, Firewire won't be vanishing anytime soon. If all you want to do is run a slow ass pocket drive there's no particular need for it. You'll like it a lot better than USB with your 4000 dpi scanner though. And your video. And multichannel (24+) audio, which really won't function over USB. And anything that needs guaranteed throughput and latency. And the option for long cable runs. And so on. Let me know when USB does this.
You want a drive in your desktop machine to show up on your server? Um. As a local drive? Okay, that's not the way you would normally get things done, but let's go with it. Anyway you can export/share the drive from your desktop (be it Windows, Linux, or Mac) and then mount it from your VM as CIFS, or whatever, from Windows/Linux/Solaris. Assuming you don't have some horked up domain setup it should work fine.
Okay, let's see.
Yup works.
I don't know exactly what you have in mind here though. What are you mounting? And what for?
Also you can surf the web for other management applications written using the VI API. There are some out there already and I think that the release of ESXi will really accelerate this. Which is a good thing because VC could use a kick in the pants (would be good for VMware too).
BTW there is a limited built-in web management interface.
Aside from the occasional maintenance task (like if you have misconfigured your network) there's no reason you want *want* to use the VMware console. Just like any other server that's not right under your desk, you'll be using X or RDC. Or a command line via ssh.
ESXi and for that matter ESX will run on a variety of non qualified hardware. (Unsupported of course.) It will be interesting to see what kind of compatibility list people are able to come up with. It can't be worse than, say, the early days of Linux and 802.11....
Embedded ESX supports a large subset of the VI API (basically, everything that a standalone host can give you). You can write Perl or Java to your heart's content and get ESXi to jump through hoops. Virtual Center uses the VI API and it's quite possible you can write something you enjoy better. Go check out the Virtual Infrastructure SDK.
If you don't mind rolling your own you can do a whole bunch of management via the VI API using, for example, Perl Toolkit. It's not necessarily simple but, hey, once you've written it, share it with other folks.
The enterprise-level management tools are necessary for complex setups but for smaller applications you are able to do a lot on your own. A whole lot! In addition to the obvious stuff like VM operations, you could probably do a clone, perhaps in a limited way, by copying and moving files in the datastores.
Someone who's industrious could get quite a bit out of embedded ESX.
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I used to serve a 2mb file of zeros at favicon.ico. I even used a bogus MIME type to give MSIE a fighting chance. Of course MSIE ignored the MIME type and charged ahead anyway.
And do not confuse organizing with professional licensing. They are two completely different and unrelated things. I'm not a fan of licensing in other than safety-related positions.
I'd really like to see professional unions for IT and software professionals. Like airline pilots, university faculty, doctors, and so on. It would benefit almost everyone. Obviously, engineers would have some leverage (finally!) in a profession where 1-2 year jobs are the current reality; but requiring employers to hire with a longer-term outlook, and defined work rules, would impose some proper planning and scheduling, and a union contract could put real constraints on the substitution of contractors, vendors, and outsourced/offshore labor for positions that should belong to employees.
It's taken me a while to come around to this position (I've been in the industry for 20 years), but I believe that without question it's the right thing in the 21st century.
Q.E.D.
I'm not sure which is more commonly stolen now, laptops or purses. But most thieves won't *break into* your car to steal a purse.
Laptops can be and are stolen whenever they're out of sight of the owner. I don't know why it is that people don't get this.
So it's like winning the "bend over" lottery I guess.
Unfortunately there's not a mouthpiece for a giant multibillion dollar industry available to sue people who "make available" personal information.
Nor are their investigators roaming the internet making warrantless searches for offenders.
Nor are there lobbyists sending Congressmen on junkets to ensure that maximally favorable and punitive laws are passed.
And when the government serves up your personal information, even through a contractor, you usually can't sue anyone, and if you do, it takes most of a decade. And you definitely can't bully the government for a settlement.
As usual, it sucks to be a plain old citizen.
VI Client works fine in a Windows VM though.
Exactly what support and subscription services do you think you get for a free download? The answer being NONE, this paragraph is irrelevant.
When you say "VMware" do you mean Workstation/Fusion? Or ESX/ESXi? Workstation and Fusion work fine on laptops. 1GB of RAM is pretty much a baseline though (I have 4GB in my MBP for Fusion).
There are people who have been able to run ESX on a laptop. I don't know how complicated it was to get going though. However, what you would do with a laptop running ESX, I'm not really sure. There's certainly nothing to look at on the screen other than a command line (ESX) or a BIOS-like config screen (ESXi).
Oh, uh, yeah, more specifically:
As an example of Firewire audio which is definitely not intended primarily for LAPTOPS (I don't know where you came up with this), there's the eternally popular MOTU 828: http://www.motu.com/products/motuaudio/828mk3/. No one's going to be running this over USB any time soon.
For large or sustained transfers, Firewire has 2-4x the throughput of USB 2.0. Firewire 400 is almost always faster than USB 2.0 in any application even though USB 2.0 has a nominally higher speed.
Scanners that can pump out 100MB high res scans will also run faster over Firewire. Considering that a v700 is only about $600 this isn't crazy talk.
HDV is Firewire-based.
And so on.
Geez, Firewire won't be vanishing anytime soon. If all you want to do is run a slow ass pocket drive there's no particular need for it. You'll like it a lot better than USB with your 4000 dpi scanner though. And your video. And multichannel (24+) audio, which really won't function over USB. And anything that needs guaranteed throughput and latency. And the option for long cable runs. And so on. Let me know when USB does this.
You want a drive in your desktop machine to show up on your server? Um. As a local drive? Okay, that's not the way you would normally get things done, but let's go with it. Anyway you can export/share the drive from your desktop (be it Windows, Linux, or Mac) and then mount it from your VM as CIFS, or whatever, from Windows/Linux/Solaris. Assuming you don't have some horked up domain setup it should work fine.
Okay, let's see.
Yup works.
I don't know exactly what you have in mind here though. What are you mounting? And what for?
I think (as is often the case) one person is talking about Virtual Center and another is talking about VI Client ....
A Dell SC1430 will work fine. (Well, CIM's busted but whatever.)
Also you can surf the web for other management applications written using the VI API. There are some out there already and I think that the release of ESXi will really accelerate this. Which is a good thing because VC could use a kick in the pants (would be good for VMware too).
BTW there is a limited built-in web management interface.
Yeah and you can also port VMs between ESX, Workstation, Fusion, Server, Player ....
Converter is helpful although not always necessary. (There's a version you can download for free.)
Aside from the occasional maintenance task (like if you have misconfigured your network) there's no reason you want *want* to use the VMware console. Just like any other server that's not right under your desk, you'll be using X or RDC. Or a command line via ssh.
ESXi and for that matter ESX will run on a variety of non qualified hardware. (Unsupported of course.) It will be interesting to see what kind of compatibility list people are able to come up with. It can't be worse than, say, the early days of Linux and 802.11 ....
Embedded ESX supports a large subset of the VI API (basically, everything that a standalone host can give you). You can write Perl or Java to your heart's content and get ESXi to jump through hoops. Virtual Center uses the VI API and it's quite possible you can write something you enjoy better. Go check out the Virtual Infrastructure SDK.
If you don't mind rolling your own you can do a whole bunch of management via the VI API using, for example, Perl Toolkit. It's not necessarily simple but, hey, once you've written it, share it with other folks.
The enterprise-level management tools are necessary for complex setups but for smaller applications you are able to do a lot on your own. A whole lot! In addition to the obvious stuff like VM operations, you could probably do a clone, perhaps in a limited way, by copying and moving files in the datastores.
Someone who's industrious could get quite a bit out of embedded ESX.
Except Kamala Harris ran unopposed.
Look, okay, in in SF we're screwed up. Maybe it's a magnetic field or something.
Or else when you're 77 it's time to give up the disco biscuits.
My rubber chickens are bigger than your rubber chickens.
And finally I see "Johnny Knoxville" written all over this.