> VMs are meant to be ephemeral anyways. While ephemeral VMs are a great way to operate if your able, I really don't think you can say that your "meant" to ope

> VMs are meant to be ephemeral anyways. While ephemeral VMs are a great way to operate if your able, I really don't think you can say that your "meant" to operate that way. Many workloads don't fit that model, and certainly a lot of commercial software is of the type that your not going to want to be re-installing too often and going through re-licensing hell.