Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 23:27:04 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@mittelstaedt.us> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testing Luvalley with FreeBSD as dom0 Message-ID: <AANLkTin6P7X6_VJevnj=KDttqNn%2BW=bR_Dp1O6iCr%2B%2Bs@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D2A9504.7070109@mittelstaedt.us> References: <20100418191752.GA72730@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <w2r3b0605b31004181554tb90de59u6df8ebd5b1206caa@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTi=nhk%2BeCG6kbe4LfeaTQWkKaVcr%2BRx2LrKparDO@mail.gmail.com> <20110107194516.GA28544@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <AANLkTikvP8SezKEZYSUimaj3u8fkk2Vw6-aY09KV=RF3@mail.gmail.com> <20110107213643.GA32645@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <AANLkTi=2Nn8xeKudxb2uSR=aLx0GW43gVPCdL-=hjP7z@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikbuWJbtPYaLW=8BEH4f5oiumzEN6rgwOB5tC=R@mail.gmail.com> <20110109110022.GA10789@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <AANLkTik9Ckh2UAaed=YYbBFCP6yyd6kOmSXdEYmZPiEd@mail.gmail.com> <4D2A55F4.6010704@mittelstaedt.us> <AANLkTim0cfNkEEq7daR=iCD1kaKTpqBdMXavLZoJP3ri@mail.gmail.com> <4D2A9504.7070109@mittelstaedt.us>
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On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@mittelstaedt.us>wrote: > Unless Microsoft makes Hyper-V a cost item, this won't happen. The > situation is like the Firefox/Internet Explorer Chinese finger trap. > Maybe I'm not understanding what you mean, but hyper-V is already a cost item. If you want to run more than 1 guest on Server 2008 r2, pay up. Actually their cost model is quite a bit more complex than that, and under certain conditions unlimited VM's can be run without purchasing more hyper-v guest licenses, but it can be a frickin maze trying to figure it out. I considered that hypervisor when doing the install since it was primarily the Windows guests that needed the performance, but I quit once I ran into all the ways they make you pay. > And VirtualBox is under the same dual GPL/proprietary licensing setup > that Mysql and that Qt uses so even if Oracle stopped development on the > OSE edition, some other group would pick it up. > Well that would remain to be seen. I doubt it's much of a sure thing because the linux community as a whole seems pretty infatuated with KVM(and for good reason, it a nice hypervisor), and if even if there was a fork it wouldn't have near the resources it does now. One of Virtualbox's great features right now is it's superior documentation(Xen I'm looking at you) and it's rapid development. A fork wouldn't replace that, at least for some time. -- Adam Vande More
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