From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RTEwA-0002Tp-4V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:40:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C42221C0BF; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ED1F21C034 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:39:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com ([209.85.161.53]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RTEvD-002oqd-Bx for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:39:39 +0700 Received: by faan15 with SMTP id n15so2261062faa.40 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:39:33 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.205.83.73 with SMTP id af9mr24901942bkc.24.1322062773348; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:39:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.74.16 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:39:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.74.16 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:39:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20111122192021.GA3364@acm.acm> <1322002029.8108.35.camel@moriah> <9eb323ce9f3bf7ae75729fe7ab4706ae.squirrel@www.antarean.org> <20111123171251.4bb8864a@rohan.example.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:39:33 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please. From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec554016af9e8a304b268b999 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: 6113ef9a-e402-4dc0-b725-2964cf854387 X-Archives-Hash: c958225c33b2f27576cacf9e32b2eeac --bcaec554016af9e8a304b268b999 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Nov 23, 2011 10:32 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I notice this entire thread has carefully steered around ESXi > > > > Now there's an interesting product, with a truly fascinating licensing > > and pricing model. > > ESXi isn't Linux. Or, at least, it's not something you'd run on your desktop. > > But, yeah, VMWare is working hard to shake down their existing > customer base. Where I work, I'm pushing a migration to XCP. Sweet > features for far cheaper. > I'm still gathering up courage to go down the XCP path, as there are not yet any company in my city that provides support for it. So, I went the coward's path of XenServer :-) Rgds, --bcaec554016af9e8a304b268b999 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8


On Nov 23, 2011 10:32 PM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I notice this entire thread has carefully steered around ESXi
> >
> > Now there's an interesting product, with a truly fascinating licensing
> > and pricing model.
>
> ESXi isn't Linux. Or, at least, it's not something you'd run on your desktop.
>
> But, yeah, VMWare is working hard to shake down their existing
> customer base. Where I work, I'm pushing a migration to XCP. Sweet
> features for far cheaper.
>

I'm still gathering up courage to go down the XCP path, as there are not yet any company in my city that provides support for it. So, I went the coward's path of XenServer :-)

Rgds,

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