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How good is VMware anyway? I’ve only ever “used” VMware in the consumer use case… I think it was a demo version (maybe there was a free student version over a d

How good is VMware anyway? I’ve only ever “used” VMware in the consumer use case… I think it was a demo version (maybe there was a free student version over a decade ago?). Anyway, it seemed much worse than VirtualBox (the options were less intuitive and the GUI was ugly) but then I don’t think I the user they were targeting (student playing around in Linux).

bigstrat2003 2y ago
VMware is amazing. There's a reason everyone flocks to it.
jen729w 2y ago
> the options were less intuitive and the GUI was ugly Oh I see you tried our enterprise software. Welcome! VMware is bananas. One console runs thousands of VMs across hundreds of physicals in dozens of data centres. VMs can, and do, move around at will thanks to vMotion. Need to upgrade this physical host? Just vMotion its guests somewhere else. Oh and it’ll replicate all of this for you, live. So if one half of your data hall goes down, it doesn’t matter.* Your users don’t even notice. And many, many other features that Virtualbox can’t touch. (*Well, someone like me is having a bad day, but you know.)