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You can absolutely build it for 100M $.

• moondev 3y ago
  You can't really "build" VMware though. It's a proprietary hypervisor and ecosystem of interoperable products with tons of hardware vendor drivers. Building on KVM or even a new hypervisor would not get you 'VMware"
  • RedShift1 3y ago
    For 100M $ you can buy Proxmox, start advertising, scoop up all the lower end VMware customers and fill in the feature gaps according to customer demand over time.
    • vardump 3y ago
      Can Proxmox do things like vMotion?
      • RedShift1 3y ago
        Yes
      • xav0989 3y ago
        It has a live migration feature so I’m going to go with yes.
      • Nullabillity 3y ago
        https://libvirt.org/migration.html https://libvirt.org/migration.html Though I would argue that relying on cooperative/live migration in the first place is a mistake.
        • rwmj 3y ago
          Live migration is a pretty hair-raising feature if you know how it is implemented internally, but nevertheless qemu/libvirt put in a vast effort to make it work and many Red Hat customers are using it routinely.
      • panick21_ 3y ago
        The whole Oxide computer company raised less then $100 million $ as far as I know. With that money and open source they build not only service that can do live migration, but also the computer to run the whole thing on top. Sure that's not a UI and doesn't include a lot of other stuff that VMWare does, but it does illustrate what a gigantic amount of money 100 million $ actually. The underlying open source tools are so good, if you have the money to have real engineering team and combine them in interesting way and to costumize them for your needs, 100 million $ seems like it would go a very, very long way. Specially when we are talking 100 M$ every year or something like that.