Comments on: Virtualization War II (VWII) http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/04/virtualization-war-ii-vwii/ Spewing from the heart Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:45:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: efk http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/04/virtualization-war-ii-vwii/comment-page-1/#comment-17 efk Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:55:32 +0000 http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=142#comment-17 There is definitely a lot of spin in that video. While not as much of a flaming turd as Microsoft Virtual Server, it's still not ready for prime time by any stretch of the imagination. The big thing for me, is Hyper-V really only supports one linux distro (Suse I think). If you're trying to run FreeBSD or anything else in a VM, you're going to have no end of problems. My TACACS server running FreeBSD 7.0 worked fine if you look past the clock issues, until I attempted to reboot. I had to wait until the next maintenance window before I could kill that VM because it was "shutting down" for weeks. If you only run windows, and you don't want to spend any money use Hyper-V. If you want a real virtualization platform, you're going to want VMware. There is definitely a lot of spin in that video. While not as much of a flaming turd as Microsoft Virtual Server, it’s still not ready for prime time by any stretch of the imagination.

The big thing for me, is Hyper-V really only supports one linux distro (Suse I think). If you’re trying to run FreeBSD or anything else in a VM, you’re going to have no end of problems. My TACACS server running FreeBSD 7.0 worked fine if you look past the clock issues, until I attempted to reboot. I had to wait until the next maintenance window before I could kill that VM because it was “shutting down” for weeks.

If you only run windows, and you don’t want to spend any money use Hyper-V. If you want a real virtualization platform, you’re going to want VMware.

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