Is it just me or is running a VM in a VM just crazy? The application stack now looks like OS -> Hypervisor -> VM -> OS -> VM -> App Where "App" might be a service so you might have this stack duplicated dozens of times for an actual app that a user can use. And you don't save anything either, rather than "processes" your sysadmins manage "VMs". What happened to OS -> App
Yes it bothers me a bit. I think the 'everything to a VM' culture at the moment unfortunately misses doing isolation in a lighter way. (jails,zones,lxc,lguest etc). Some of those are not quite mature but still. Relatedly sometimes license requirements are per cpu, and the license accepts vmware restrictions but not cgroup or resource manager type restrictions.
I hate licensing.