Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:52:27 -0500 From: Shawn Barnhart <swb@grasslake.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD Message-ID: <47F3D5EB.5050104@grasslake.net> In-Reply-To: <226ae0c60803180656x5d7d359bkf306aa1092816075@mail.gmail.com> References: <226ae0c60803180656x5d7d359bkf306aa1092816075@mail.gmail.com>
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David Robillard wrote: >> Basically the only reason I have for using VM Tools is for the ability >> of Vmotion and such with our ESX Server farm. It's really the only >> benefit that the VM tools will give me on FreeBSD as all my virtual >> machines which are running FreeBSD are servers and don't use any GUI's >> either. >> >> Currently there is nothing that doesn't run correctly under VMWare and I >> have not seen any lack of performance or anything compared to a physical >> machine. Maybe if enough of us push to have the VMWare Tools developed >> and certified for use with VMWare that they might actually get started. >> >> I might develop some sort of E-Petition for it, what you think? > > Why not? I'm in the exact same position as you are with ESX & FreeBSD. > Hence I'd love to have VMWare Tools developed and certified for use > with FreeBSD. Actually, I'd really like to see VMWare Server and > Player certified for FreeBSD i386 and amd64. VMWare is great stuff, I use and support all of it, but as a company they have a bit of Fortune 500 tunnel vision. Their pricing is geared towards nickel and diming large enterprises and their software support is geared too much towards Windows. Hyper-V will cut deeply into their market and they might regret being too MS-centered. I already have potential customers asking "Gee, what about Hyper-V. It's a lot cheaper than ESX and we don't really care about non-MS..." Pricing ESX enterprise (with all the bells & whistles, including vmotion, virtual center, HA, etc) at around US$500 per node and providing better support for FreeBSD and other alternative OSes would go a LONG way towards long-term competitiveness.
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