Gods punish the insolent ones
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I keep hearing all these issues with VMWare and I keep thinking the same thing: What is the need for VMWare? Why pay for something that is free from Microsoft. We support it for third parties that use it for some of our customers, and they have the same issues you mention. Say about 5 VMs Total. They always blame Microsoft, but our stuff just runs. That's the only part that fails. My machine and server count on Hyper-V is on the 500 Plus and with several iterations of servers and for more than 14 years. My Hyper-V Stuff has been running from the time of Virtual PC and old as well as new just run. I even have some virtual DOS 6.22 and XP VMs needed for historical reasons since the software vendors went away. Again, it just runs fine. If it fails, you may want to consider and alternative, if it works, why bother changing? Good luck
You probably have a point there. In my case, it's a question of habit: I've used VMWare since 20+ years ago and, as I said, I've never run into problems. Maybe I should look into migrating to Hyper-V but it's always hard to leave familiar ground without a proper motivation.
Mircea
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You probably have a point there. In my case, it's a question of habit: I've used VMWare since 20+ years ago and, as I said, I've never run into problems. Maybe I should look into migrating to Hyper-V but it's always hard to leave familiar ground without a proper motivation.
Mircea
I took me almost 10 years to drop Borland CPP for MS C# and about 30 to drop Unix/Linux for Windows. I hated doing it, as if I were doing something wrong. I kept seeing my friends keeping software running for years but I had to keep making changes. The maintenance was killing me. I now have other problems and the universe I deal with is bigger, but there is always something already solving my problems in the Microsoft universe. My last adventures were the Mono Project and the MySQL limit to 2Gbs. By the time I got around their issues MSFT had CS Code behind and MSSQL Express could store 10GB in the main DB and unlimited using Streams. At my level, which is SMB, that makes it very easy to use. In those short years are grew 4 times the size. I share my shame of leaving Unix/Linux for Windows for that reason. Good luck Sir!
