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by weikju 591 days ago
Server hosts are already using vsphere or some other products. The produced being made free are intended for desktop usage.
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No, VPSes use Xen and KVM because VMware is too damn expensive for anything but corporate IT workloads.
> "or other products"

I didn't feel like making a complete overview of the whole landscape, since this news is about VMware workstation in specific. Therefore any VMWare product in use by server hosts would in all likelihood not be VMWare Workstation/Fusion.

You didn't list anything substantive because you don't understand the landscape, so you used weasel words.
Aside from your personal attack, this is besides the point, as this is about a desktop product not a server product, which is the important difference that had to be noted in response to the post I was replying to.

Please refrain from personal attacks on this forum, it's one of the last nice places on the Internet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That, or OpenStack. I know it's a bigger deal for telcos and wraps kvm, but it's very reliable, scalable, and has all the features a hosting provider would need.
OpenStack isn't a hypervisor! It's a system to emulate AWS locally that requires a hypervisor to present multiple system images.
You're right that it's not a hypervisor, but it's not an AWS emulator either. It's a collection of tightly coupled management layers for other open source projects that form a new, cohesive whole that can be competitive with AWS at a medium scale.
post-broadcom acquisition, it too expensive even for that!
It's the complacency trap many FOSS and non-FOSS legacy products fall into when corporate bureaucracy dominates while failing to realize their policies and practices are counterproductive.

CFEngine2->3, SugarCRM, Mongo, Couchbase, any CA or IBM product