On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:12:53 -0600, Michael Scheidell
<scheid...@freebsd.org> wrote:
I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him there
was a lot of companies using FreeBSD on VMware, and a lot more that
would, if just VMware gave us some love (fixed, or helped us fix some
device drivers).
He asked "how many"?
Well, I sure can't go back to him and tell him that there was only one
company who contacted me back who said that they used VMware in
production systems, with FreeBSD guest os.
If there isn't anyone else with VMware problems, and I really want to be
clear: VMware is a 'for profit' company, so, small numbers won't
impress them, but if there are any companies (aside from the one that
contacted me.. you don't have to again, I have your email).
If no one else, I'll call him back on the phone and apologize for
bothering him.
I was really hoping to get some of the virtual nic issues, and hgfs
issues worked out, but, I guess there isn't enough commercial interest.
My company uses FreeBSD on VMware in production quite extensively. We've
had a support case open with VMware for almost two years about guest
crashes that occur randomly (basically, guests just completely stop
responding and require reboot. We've had this happen on different
hardware, multiple storage backends, multiple FreeBSD versions, multiple
different VMware clusters), and frequently enough to cause serious
complaints from users. VMware has yet to give us any answers, other than
"enable ____ additional debug logging". I don't believe they've taken our
issue seriously, it hasn't been escalated, and it has gone on far too long
without any solution.
The benefits of their product still outweigh the drawbacks (though we've
moved the most critical systems back to native hardware), but it's gotten
to the point in which as soon as a competitor has the features we need,
we're gone.
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