These Things Matter To Me

From an osnews.com user:

Xen just hasn’t seen enough deployment out in the field yet, and getting it installed and set up is one really long and drawn out task.

Xen doesn’t yet have any decent management tools of any description like VMware which is essential in an enterprise product (many would rather just buy VMware for that alone), and performing tasks like adding and removing hardware on a virtual machine is still pretty unstable. They also seem to have a bugs list that never seems to get smaller:

http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?query_format=spe…

Not to mention that Xensource isn’t the usual open source organisation people think of when they think of open source. They are a corporation that is, and has, burned up serious amounts of VC money (http://xensource.com/company/ – look at the VCs), taking on offices at $5,000 a month and making lots of truly ludicrous decisions like using the future Microsoft hypervisor.

Yer, yer. I know that Xensource is separate from the Xen community, but it’s silly to think that things like this aren’t having a detrimental effect on the software overall. Unfortunately, it seems that the venture capital fuelled soundbites about Xen being ready have been making their way to people who really should be able to see the forest for the trees:

http://www.novell.com/ctoblog/?p=19
(here he’s suggesting a Novell exec made a kind of irresponsible statement -ed)

• There’s a big Ubuntu billboard in Silicon Valley right now. Near Oracle. I like how Tim O’Reilly said: “First Ubuntu Billboard Spotted.” Are we expecting an army of them? (via perkypants.com/blog)
• Intel releases some open source graphics drivers (for Linux). Veddy cool. Usually the crumbs Intel throws me don’t work on the version of Linux I need them to (without extreme deconstruction). Thanks, Intel! (via osnews.com)
• Diggscaperedilicous: Save to Digg, Netscape, Reddit and Del.icio.us with one bookmarklet (via TechCrunch)
• People who know German can get DVD-based Ubuntu Linux training Just sayin’.

Sheesh. I’ve only been waiting for this for like a fafillion years.

From an InfoWorld article

VMWare is undoubtedly going to show Vista running as a guest under Tiger.

The rest of the article doesn’t necessarily demonstrate an understanding of virtualization. I wouldn’t pay too much attention to some of the details in there, just the fact they were among the first to write about VMware’s scheduled presence.

In any case, I’m totes excited!!

If VMware Player, VMware Workstation, or VMware Server (or all 3!) can run on Mac OS X after next week, that means a whole new population of people, many of whom are already open to playin’ with stuff, will be able to dabble in the exciting world ot virtual appliances, not to mention all the other fun stuff you can do with virtualization.