Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What would anyone use it over qemu? Is this a business enterprise thing?
Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What would anyone use it over qemu? Is this a business enterprise thing?
mholiv@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 1 month 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?
mholiv@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Exactly.
Hexarei@programming.dev 1 month ago
You can do live migration like that with qemu, I do it all the time with Proxmox, which uses qemu under the hood.
mholiv@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’re not wrong in 2025. But VMware was able do it in 2003.
Hexarei@programming.dev 1 month ago
True. Your response just seemed to imply that the two aren’t comparable in 2025, and they absolutely are.