Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• mholiv@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There is a major difference between running a vm on your desktop and orchestrating a fleet of highly available virtual machines. Just one example might be vmotion. You can move a virtual machine from one physical host to another in real time with 0 interruption to services running on that host.

  That’s some incredible stuff. Now days you can use things like XCP-ng to do the same but VMware was ahead of the pack for a decade.

  They started dying when they were squeezed between cloud hyper scalars and the cheaper alternative hypervisors that finally had caught up.

  Then the corpse was bought by Broadcom who is currently trying to milk it before the body completely rots.

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  • barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So, it seems that companies’ infrastructure was already entrenched with VMware, and now Broadcom is trying to leverage the fact that VMware is already being used to squeeze more money out of its acquisition?

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    • mholiv@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly.

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  • Hexarei@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can do live migration like that with qemu, I do it all the time with Proxmox, which uses qemu under the hood.

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    • mholiv@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re not wrong in 2025. But VMware was able do it in 2003.

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      • Hexarei@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        True. Your response just seemed to imply that the two aren’t comparable in 2025, and they absolutely are.

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