[ohdeardear]

I hate virtualization with a passion, because it's just more crap that doesn't work written by people that shouldn't touch computers.

In theory, it's great. In practice, if you need to get "support" from someone else, it's not so great anymore, as all these companies have been discovering.

I would use VM technology if whoever wrote it would provide me with a contract saying that if anyone were to find just one program that would crash their VM (while not crashing a real machine) or miscompute, that I would get a billion dollars.

To answer your question: I was smart enough to never use it in the first place.

[garganzol]

The only kind of person who would say that they hate virtualization is a hardware vendor. Because of conflict of interests.

In this light, Broadcom, a hardware vendor, who buys a popular virtualization product does a "smart" move - it supposedly eliminates the very thing that eats away their profits. But it only looks smart to the vendor itself. For everyone else, the move looks unprofessional and incompetent.

[ohdeardear]

I never sold hardware, so there is that. I am rather anal about correctness and virtualization products are really complicated and as such almost nobody gets them to work reliably (if there is just one known bug, it's trash, IMO).