![]() ![]() While it’s never a good idea to dismiss Microsoft, the odds are stacked against them initially. Most of the initial uptake revenues are yet to be realized. But the best available data suggests that less than 15% of enterprise IT shops have adopted x86 virtualization to any extent in a production environment. Yes, the virtualization gold rush has peaked, and the hype should die down with the possible exception of VMware spinning out from under EMC as its market cap skyrockets past its parent company (isn’t capitalism fun?). I don’t necessarily think that Microsoft is all that late to the party. I’m interested in how Xen and Viridian could fit together in the same portfolio, or how Citrix fits together with SoftGrid, or what any of this would mean for Microsoft’s relationship with SWSoft (Virtuozzo). The Silicon Valley rumor mill says that Microsoft is interested in acquiring Citrix (who recently acquired XenSource). But if that indeed happens, you read it here first We shall see in a couple year’s time if Apple is indeed planning to overcome those barriers and lure govt. The “battle-tested” criteria matters a lot to these customers). It’s not like Sun gear is cheap, so the perceived expensiveness of the Macs won’t be an issue there, but instead the perceived lack of tradition or dependable expertise in support and hardware reliability (and Macs *are* reliable, but there’s still not a single Mac out there with the uptime of some Sun boxes. I strongly suspect Apple is going after those markets as well. Sun’s biggest customers are the government from various countries. The latter wins contracts, while the former is sneezed at.Īctually, that’s almost the whole reason Sun kept Solaris afloat. When, for example, you’re dealing with the government, there’s a clear cut difference between “in practice it offers a high degree of compatibility with the UNIX(tm) and POSIX standards” and “it’s certified, period”. And yet you’ll still need to port apps to the Mac to really make use of it. Just about everyone claims POSIX compliance and no one will deny that Macs are unix-y. What does Leopard’s UNIX certification do for anyone? A UNIX cert is really not worth the cost of acquiring it in today’s world since it doesn’t actually mean much. There were lots of boos and they were conveniently parked by the emergency exit. ![]() Anyone who went to VMworld 2007 can tell you about the riots that almost ensued when MS announced their licensing for Viridian. They have slick marketing that makes their products look good even if the product itself is not (Vista and ME anyone?)Īnd the fact that has been missed is the licensing. MS is the VHS to the rest of the industry’s betamax. Xen I THINK came up with something like that too. Meaning an embedded in hardware solution. ![]() ESX3i would be an example of what a true type1 hypervisor is. But in my opinion (and note this is my opinion) I think Xen and Viridian at best are more a type2 hypervisor than a type1 despite the wiki. Viridian is just a watered down windows integrated version of VMware Server. Xen uses a linux kernel to basically do what MS is doing as well. (AKA ESX VMkernel virtualizes the Service console which is mistakenly confused as the “OS” itself). A hypervisor is a really thin layer of software that virtualizes everything else on it. It’s not as full featured as VMware, but it’s free, will work with current Linux releases, runs ARM Linux well (as it is virtualizing not emulating), and does not have the issue (it did have the issue, but the developers fixed it quickly).Might want to read up on what a Hypervisor actually is. Don’t apply kernel updates until VMware addresses the issue. For example, installing Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS with the procedure in the above document works. ![]() Install from a distribution’s installer that was built before March 2022.There are workarounds until that happens or if you need something today: We are expecting/hoping that an upcoming update to the Tech Preview (hinted by VMware to be in July) will address this issue. VMware has not released a fix tor this issue yet. The Linux changes have been rolled out to almost all current Linux distributions as security updates, so almost all current installers will have this problem. These changes render those kernels unbootable on the Tech Preview due to a VMware issue. The Linux kernel developers introduced changes in the kernel to address the security issues on Intel and ARM CPUs that were disclosed in March 2022. Known issue, this has been discussed many times in this forum and a search here would have saved you a posting. ![]()
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