VMware Workstation Shifting from Proprietary Code to Using Upstream KVM
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Re: VMware Workstation Shifting from Proprietary Code to Using Upstream KVM
#2I wonder if they’ll stop trying to fleece their remaining customers as much.
Re: VMware Workstation Shifting from Proprietary Code to Using Upstream KVM
#3VMware Workstation wasn't part of the end-user computing division spinoff to KKR?
https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/broadcom-unloads-vm...
> Boadcom is selling VMware’s End-User Computing (EUC) Division to KKR for $4 billion... This includes its Horizon desktop and application virtualization platform, and Workspace One unified endpoint management platform.
Re: VMware Workstation Shifting from Proprietary Code to Using Upstream KVM
#4AIUI they already had to do something similar on Windows. Enabling certain features causes Windows to boot itself inside Hyper-V, and VMwares own hypervisor can't run nested under the Hyper-V hypervisor, so VMware gives up and runs its guests directly on Hyper-V instead.
Re: VMware Workstation Shifting from Proprietary Code to Using Upstream KVM
#5I wonder if they’ll stop trying to fleece their remaining customers as much.
This looks like a cost saving maneuver to me. Why do the heavy innovation lifting on your own proprietary virtualization technology when you can have the community do it for you, for free? You can layoff several high-cost developers and stop innovating while extracting as much money from your current customers as possible.
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#6off topic, but has anyone succesfully registered their Workstation Pro single user license with broadcom? I followed the instructions they send to my email like a month ago, but it still says on the broadcom portal that i am not eligible to download latest version despite me having a valid license.
context: Broadcom has made Pro free for private users but you still need to register with them to download it.
Re: VMware Workstation Shifting from Proprietary Code to Using Upstream KVM
#7AIUI they already had to do something similar on Windows. Enabling certain features causes Windows to boot itself inside Hyper-V, and VMwares own hypervisor can't run nested under the Hyper-V hypervisor, so VMware gives up and runs its guests directly on Hyper-V instead.
Windows basically always runs inside a hyper-v VM these days.
Re: VMware Workstation Shifting from Proprietary Code to Using Upstream KVM
#8I wonder if they’ll stop trying to fleece their remaining customers as much.
This looks like a cost saving maneuver to me. Why do the heavy innovation lifting on your own proprietary virtualization technology when you can have the community do it for you, for free? You can layoff several high-cost developers and stop innovating while extracting as much money from your current customers as possible.
If it's good enough for every cloud but Microsoft Azure, why pay to have your own bespoke virtualization platform with its own errata?
Re: VMware Workstation Shifting from Proprietary Code to Using Upstream KVM
#9Having used Workstation, the graphic performance inside its GUI is really nice, it's better than anything else on the market by a far margin. It performs better than virt-manager/qemu on Linux.
Could this move require VMWare/BC to release source code that could improve qemu/virt-manager? KVM is GPL if not mistaken.
Re: VMware Workstation Shifting from Proprietary Code to Using Upstream KVM
#10off topic, but has anyone succesfully registered their Workstation Pro single user license with broadcom? I followed the instructions they send to my email like a month ago, but it still says on the broadcom portal that i am not eligible to download latest version despite me having a valid license. context: Broadcom has made Pro free for private users but you still need to register with them to download it.
Sign up on their portal with a new burner email account and use that to request the license. Their site is totally broken for existing users and you’ll just end up going in circles with their support.