• barnaclebutt
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    16 hours ago

    Why would anyone use it over qemu? Is this a business enterprise thing?

    • @mholiv@lemmy.world
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      241 day 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
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        316 hours 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?

      • @Hexarei@programming.dev
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        21 day 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
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              221 hours ago

              No problem. I just thought I had covered that when I said:

              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.

              This being said I don’t think even in 2025 proxmox and things like vsphere are comparable. XCP-ng I do think is though. It’s open source and matches features.