amen..

propeller-heads!? Haven't heard that one for a long time! LOL Well played sir.

The thing is, it's not about beeing geeky. Sure there are some of us who would like it because it's cool. But lets take a look at it from this perspective:

Our company has 2 sysadmins. Both running linux. We have a total of 5 developers that need access to a vmware console. All 5 are running Linux. The CTO has a Mac. If we were to license 8 windows virtual machines, thats 8x$300 of Windows Vista Business (because we don't have enough windows need to qualify for a license program; cant get XP; etc) + $500 av licenses +8 x $200 vmware workstation + the time and effort to support these systems....

"suck it up and by windows" works if you have 1 or 2 sysadmins. Telling our devs to run a windows vm would cause more of an uproar than yelling "bomb" at an airport

Of course it's not about being geeky. If you count only people posting here, each representing a company, there are a bunch of unhappy costumers. I'm dissapointed and I don't quite understand VMware's attitude. Isn't Microsoft their competitor? Anyway, I'm going to stop following the thread, as it seems the good news I was waiting for is not coming. Maybe they will develop a client for Google Chrome OS . See ya guys in another 3 years...

(sorry, odd automatic replies...)

(sorry, odd automatic replies...)

I was evaluating Hyper-V Server R2 and got bored one day, so I P2V'd the box into an ESX 3.5 VM. Then I removed the Hyper-V role using ocsetup.exe, essentially transforming it into a Windows Core 2008 R2 virtual machine. I enabled all the .NET roles and successfully installed/ran the VI Client. In order to get the remote console working I had to yank 4 DLLs from my Vista VM.

Hyper-V Server (and R2 soon) is a free download at microsoft.com, if you want to run the VI Client without "Windows" then Microsoft's lean-mean hypervisor (haha) should suit you just fine. <cough>

D.

I don't see how this is without windows. I do appreciate the workaround effort though. I'll be removing myself from the list shortly. I've given up waiting. VMware lost out on $60,000.00 revenue coming from us by not supporting Linux and requiring windows.

Too bad for them - I used to like VMware.

We are converting our machines to openfiler/iscsi raid10 and KVM on Ubuntu and RHEL right now.