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by denton-scratch 882 days ago
> even if they had to forsake some useful features

Curious: what does VMWare do that you can't do using Xen, KVM etc? Why was VMWare worth a billion?

I used to use VMWare ages ago (free version). It had nice GUIs; ad-hoc VM setup and management was miles easier than Xen (my driver). But most VM setup isn't ad-hoc, and isn't done through a UI, it's done through automation.

Broadcom seems to be a mean, nasty company: "Everyone hates us, we don't care."