It would be nice after all these years they would fix fundamental problems with their desktop hypervisors like Fusion being utterly incapable for automatically reconnecting to a vCenter server after the computer goes to sleep, instead of adding features like a REST API which few will use. Bugs like this show that their developers never actually use their own products in their daily workflows.
Desktop hypervisor fiends. Both of you. VMware's testing a new cut of Workstation
VMware’s quietly slipped out a Tech Preview of an update to Workstation, its desktop hypervisor for Windows and Linux. The most notable new bit appears to be a REST API that matches the one added to the 2017 edition of Fusion, VMware’s desktop hypervisor for the Mac. Once it arrives in Workstation it’ll allow automated testing …
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Friday 13th July 2018 13:40 GMT FIA
Did Ubuntu ever use it? I thought they were doing their own thing called Mir. Which they have since abandoned?
I've not made heavy use of it, and I will confess to a real dislike of X, but wayland seems to be pretty responsive the few times I've tried it. (I always find vanilla X feel like there's a slight lag between me and the PC).
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Thursday 12th July 2018 12:54 GMT steviebuk
I've always....
....like VMWare Workstation. Learnt ESX-i from an old engineer at last place I worked as it's quite different to Workstation.
However at new place I'm at they user Hyper-V so I'm having to play with that now. But getting it nested in VMWare Workstation is useful for playing until I turn my ESX-i dedicated machine into a Hyper-V machine.
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Thursday 12th July 2018 21:51 GMT bazza
Re: I've always....
My favourite non-serious achievement of all time: VMWare Player hosting ESXi, which in turn hosted a Windows domain controller, a VCentre Server and a number of clients. All on a laptop. All worked pretty well, considering, required a bit of tweaking to allow hardware support for virtualisation to be nested down into the guests.
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