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VMware - a true leader where others would love to follow

By Robin Turvey Posted Tuesday 11th September 2007 18:52 GMT

<<To get the light version of ESX, VMware did little more than strip out the close-to-2GB service console that's part of the core ESX Server product.>>

You have to love the register with its throw away comments. Clearly it was a trivial exercise to build a hypervisor with the features and quality that VMware have with ESX - and clearly it was also trivial to create a embedded hypervisor.

It's a wonder eveyone on the world doesn't do it - oh hang on - *slaps forehead* - It's actually pretty hard... that'll be why...

We aren't talking about just slapping a USB stick in the side and booting Linux with Xen here - this is a whole new category of hypervisor - the folks at VMware continue to amaze

USB Slappers

By Mike Posted Tuesday 11th September 2007 19:10 GMT

"We aren't talking about just slapping a USB stick in the side and booting Linux with Xen here"

No, they're talking about slapping a USB stick INSIDE and booting VMware.

Not necessarily....

By sephiroth4 Posted Tuesday 11th September 2007 21:48 GMT

Resources still pale in comparison to os virtualization which is what we will be using instead of behemoth hypervisor hogs. Yes you are limited to one OS, but some corps cannot afford otherwise. With Windows Datacenter offering unlimited instances of VMs, it's a very appealing offer.

Quad-core demo - hmmm, why did it say dual-core then, Diane ?

By Daniel Gould Posted Wednesday 12th September 2007 13:34 GMT

In the demo yesterday, Diane and Mark made a big deal of this server being the first shipping AMD dual-socket quad-core. However, I wasn't the only one to notice the bios startup screen stating 2 x dual-core processors !! Oops.