Testing Luvalley with FreeBSD as dom0

[Adam Vande More]

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at 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.

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Adam Vande More