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Subject: Re: Bare Metal VMS (Frame.Work Laptops) <<<< complete answer late
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:06:53 -0500
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On 11/25/2024 7:34 AM, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <vhti7a$1sg3t$1@dont-email.me>, vlf@star.enet.dec.com
> (Subcommandante XDelta) wrote:
>> As for Hypervisor/VMS, perhaps, this is an interesting option, to
>> make it a little more palatable to the VMS ecosystem:
>>
>> https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/ultimate-guides/embedded-hypervisor
> 
> Demanding a hypervisor that isn't well-established in business IT is
> another thing for customers' management to dislike.
> 
> The VSI plan is to run on the well-established hypervisors, and confine
> the unfamiliar aspects of VMS to individual virtual machines.

That is the business requirement.

VMS must run on what the customers use.

>                                                               Sadly,
> Broadcom's greed after taking over VMware is making that harder.

I don't think it really changes the relevant hypervisors.

They need to support ESXi, KVM and Hyper-V. Anything else?

Before Broadcom it may have been 75%-20%-5% - after Broadcom
it may be 30%-65%-5%, but that does not change VMS support
requirements.

Above is for on-prem production systems.

For public cloud it is given by the cloud vendor.

And dev systems is different. VirtualBox, Player/WorkStation,
KVM etc..

(I know VirtualBox has been pushed a lot for this, but given
peoples experience on both Windows and Linux has been very painful,
then VSI should probably consider dropping that)

Arne