On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt <t...@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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
