Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:00:39 +0100 From: Olli Hauer <ohauer@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> Subject: Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right? Message-ID: <4F1C8707.4040502@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4F1C1957.6040401@gmx.de> References: <4F1B1C45.60902@freebsd.org> <20120121161024.444a11c2@scorpio> <201201220815.36115.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> <4F1C1957.6040401@gmx.de>
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On 2012-01-22 15:12, Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 22.01.2012 02:15, schrieb Erich Dollansky: >> Hi, >> >> I wonder why I should run FreeBSD under VMware. >> >> On Sunday 22 January 2012 04:10:24 Jerry wrote: >>> On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:53 -0500 >>> Michael Scheidell articulated: >>> >>>> I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him >>>> there was a lot of companies using FreeBSD on VMware, and a lot more >>>> that would, if just VMware gave us some love (fixed, or helped us fix >>>> some device drivers). >>>> >>>> He asked "how many"? >>> >> I do not know anybody who runs FreeBSD in a VM. All run it native on their machines. > > I dual-boot FreeBSD, either bare-bones, or into a virtual machine - BUT > that is VirtualBox with the PUEL'ed extension pack, on a 64-bit Linux > amd64 host. > > And I don't care about VMWare at all since they took VMWare server 1.x > off the market. > I've seen their pricing policies since the early days of VMWare > Workstation 1.X many a year ago, and it's ridiculous (meaning way > overpriced), and there are more reasons... Private and enterprise are two different things (also in prising) If our devs need a machine for testing or a project I can deploy a new machine in short time at one of our data-centers which is not doable with bare metal. For private you can use the free ESXi and small corporates can use the foundation version ( less then 1000,- for three servers including VCenter ). Most companies I know run everything virtual, one of the big plus is having all servers the same (virtual) HW platform, load balancing, failover ....
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