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Title: A rival to VMware?
Post by: Glenn on Oct 27, 2008, 08:19:14

Hyper-V is now available at for free http://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-server/default.mspx could this rival VMWare's ESXi free offering?

Title: Re: A rival to VMware?
Post by: Sebby on Oct 27, 2008, 18:00:47

What is it? :blush:

Title: Re: A rival to VMware?
Post by: Rik on Oct 27, 2008, 18:02:21

I was hoping someone else would ask. :)

Title: Re: A rival to VMware?
Post by: Sebby on Oct 27, 2008, 18:03:45

:lol:

I did read the page, but it still made no sense to me!

Title: Re: A rival to VMware?
Post by: Rik on Oct 27, 2008, 18:04:26

I just thought it was me being thick. :)

Title: Re: A rival to VMware?
Post by: Glenn on Oct 27, 2008, 18:12:48

VMMware by MS so you can run a virtual PC on your PC handy if you do a lot of testing of apps etc.

Title: Re: A rival to VMware?
Post by: Sebby on Oct 27, 2008, 18:15:32

Is it a new version of Virtual PC, then?

Title: Re: A rival to VMware?
Post by: kinmel on Oct 27, 2008, 19:49:26

It is not a desktop, it is a virtual server application

Title: Re: A rival to VMware?
Post by: D-Dan on Oct 27, 2008, 21:40:03

Ermm - what's wrong with VirtualBox - which works flawlessly with minimal overheads?

I like Open Source :)

Steve

Title: Re: A rival to VMware?
Post by: Sebby on Oct 27, 2008, 21:41:09

I hope you didn't post that message from Windows. :P

Title: Re: A rival to VMware?
Post by: D-Dan on Oct 27, 2008, 21:43:25

LOL - I dual boot (and use VirtualBox on both Windows and Linux) - so I could have posted it from anywhere :)

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