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Jackass? Don't be obnoxious. I thought exactly the same thing. How can someone be clued-in enough to be here at Hacker News - for over a year, no less - and not

Jackass? Don't be obnoxious. I thought exactly the same thing. How can someone be clued-in enough to be here at Hacker News - for over a year, no less - and not know VMWare!? It's like not having heard of Cisco or HP. How can you not have heard of them ..!?

jokull 17y ago
I've heard of them and I have a vague idea of what their product does (as indicated by my asking of how it compares to VirtualBox). In any case how would one answer that kind of question? "Because I'm 15 years old", "Because I'm not as cool as you". Anyway. Sorry about the jackass comment. Just thought you were one but I'm being too sensitive ;)
- ErrantX 17y ago
  To answer your original question anyway: yes your right it's kind of like Virtual box - but they do specialty products. Data center virtualisation for example. We use the VMWare workstation product and it's a really solid piece of kit (as others have said; they know their technology)
  - sailormoon 17y ago
    Yeah, VMWare is actually a very good product. I also use it professionally and personally.
  - jokull 17y ago
    I'm interested in testing deployments locally with some virtualization. Currently I've been looking at doing this with a Python library against VirtualBox. Would I perhaps be better off doing this with a free variant of VMWare? (currently looking at http://github.com/cloudkick/libcloud/blob/master/libcloud/drivers/vcloud.py http://github.com/cloudkick/libcloud/blob/master/libcloud/dr...) - are vCloud and workstation solutions mutually exclusive products? Sorry for questionnaire dump!
    - ErrantX 17y ago
      Im not sure if that works with VMWare workstation or not - I cant see anything obvious which says yea or nay. We have an in-house cloud but the only virualisation we use is for the management nodes - for which we use Virtual box (everything else is just commodity servers). Or in other words: I've only ever work with VMWare workstation on individual mounted disks. With that said it works solidly for pretty much and disk/OS setup you can throw at it. Of the 100's of computers we process monthly it handles 99.99% without a hiccup.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  If you're only 15, then my heartfelt apologies, I have a subconscious mental image of HN visitors as being people that are somehow active in the IT industry for a while, and not knowing about VMware would be unthinkable in that case. Once again, sorry about that. Regarding the 'jackass' bit, beware of thinking everybody on this forum is 15 years old, that street works two ways and bans here are swift and pretty permanent. HN is a forum unlike most others and one of the reasons for that is that people that can't control their use of language get killed.
  - sailormoon 17y ago
    Don't apologise. The expectation here is that this is a community of adults and your comments were well within those bounds. Jokull won't be calling anyone a jackass again anytime soon, I hope, and I have realised anew that people without my lengthy background in IT might not worship the same totems I do. Interesting. I keep forgetting that. Chalk it up to experience, comrades, and carry on ...
  - jokull 17y ago
    I'm not actually 15 years old. I'm 24 this week. I'm from Iceland and my english is not cleansed with bleach. I don't work in IT which is why I was asking for the hacker's explanation of VMware. Thinks for the kid advice though. I'm having one next week.

jokull 17y ago

I've heard of them and I have a vague idea of what their product does (as indicated by my asking of how it compares to VirtualBox). In any case how would one answer that kind of question? "Because I'm 15 years old", "Because I'm not as cool as you". Anyway. Sorry about the jackass comment. Just thought you were one but I'm being too sensitive ;)

ErrantX 17y ago
To answer your original question anyway: yes your right it's kind of like Virtual box - but they do specialty products. Data center virtualisation for example. We use the VMWare workstation product and it's a really solid piece of kit (as others have said; they know their technology)
- sailormoon 17y ago
  Yeah, VMWare is actually a very good product. I also use it professionally and personally.
- jokull 17y ago
  I'm interested in testing deployments locally with some virtualization. Currently I've been looking at doing this with a Python library against VirtualBox. Would I perhaps be better off doing this with a free variant of VMWare? (currently looking at http://github.com/cloudkick/libcloud/blob/master/libcloud/drivers/vcloud.py http://github.com/cloudkick/libcloud/blob/master/libcloud/dr...) - are vCloud and workstation solutions mutually exclusive products? Sorry for questionnaire dump!
  - ErrantX 17y ago
    Im not sure if that works with VMWare workstation or not - I cant see anything obvious which says yea or nay. We have an in-house cloud but the only virualisation we use is for the management nodes - for which we use Virtual box (everything else is just commodity servers). Or in other words: I've only ever work with VMWare workstation on individual mounted disks. With that said it works solidly for pretty much and disk/OS setup you can throw at it. Of the 100's of computers we process monthly it handles 99.99% without a hiccup.
jacquesm 17y ago
If you're only 15, then my heartfelt apologies, I have a subconscious mental image of HN visitors as being people that are somehow active in the IT industry for a while, and not knowing about VMware would be unthinkable in that case. Once again, sorry about that. Regarding the 'jackass' bit, beware of thinking everybody on this forum is 15 years old, that street works two ways and bans here are swift and pretty permanent. HN is a forum unlike most others and one of the reasons for that is that people that can't control their use of language get killed.
- sailormoon 17y ago
  Don't apologise. The expectation here is that this is a community of adults and your comments were well within those bounds. Jokull won't be calling anyone a jackass again anytime soon, I hope, and I have realised anew that people without my lengthy background in IT might not worship the same totems I do. Interesting. I keep forgetting that. Chalk it up to experience, comrades, and carry on ...
- jokull 17y ago
  I'm not actually 15 years old. I'm 24 this week. I'm from Iceland and my english is not cleansed with bleach. I don't work in IT which is why I was asking for the hacker's explanation of VMware. Thinks for the kid advice though. I'm having one next week.