VMware not even mentioned at Linux Symposium keynote
Monday, July 24, 2006
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Despite company efforts in reaching a standardization in hypervisors and its presence at the conference, VMware has not even been mentioned at Ottawa Linux Symposium keynote, presented by Jonathan Corbet, co-founder of Linux Weekly News.
Colbert talked touched several topics including virtualization, referring to Xen and User Mode Linux (UML) as the big players in his slides, and mentioning Linux-VServer, OpenVZ and BSD Jail as other efforts.
VMware fallen in the various proprietary offerings entry.
It's a bad result considering last week VMware attack against controverse Microsoft-XenSource agreement.
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Why are you surprised? VMware is indeed a "proprietary offering", unlike the rest of the examples. If the source code was free, it would get a ton more attention from the kernel maintainers.
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Muli Ben-Yehuda, at Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:13:00 AM
"VMware not even mentioned at Linux Symposium keynote..."
....but still gets a mention on virtualization.info, of course.
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Anonymous, at Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:00:00 AM
Too bad...
even though VMware is propietary software, is one of the companies that has promoted Linux the most (that is why they did not accept Microsoft to buy them)
on the other side, Xen is promoting a lock out solution when they have done an alliance with Microsoft so....
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Jose Ruelas, at Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:40:00 PM
Keep in mind, VMware relies on binary kernel modules which many of the kernels developers not only regard as illegal, but as incredibly insulting.
Just take a look at GKH's keynote for more info on binary modules.
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Anthony Liguori, at Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:53:00 PM
Anthony, please stop spreading this myth.
Yes VMware provides binary modules, but that is only to help the vast majority of their user base who don't have a compiler/kernel headers installed on their Linux box.
Although the module source code is not GPL, it is fully available. You can tinker with it, it is just that you are not allowed to redistribute your modified module. Hardly a big deal...
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Anonymous, at Friday, July 28, 2006 12:15:00 PM
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