begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 03:49:33PM -0800: [snip] > However, even customers are starting to go this way. They are tired of > having to match configurations, debug hardware, work out driver > interactions, etc.
...all the things geeks without a life *love* to do... > Virtualization presents a de facto uniform machine image across the > industry. VMWare emulates a single ethernet card, a single graphics > card, a single USB hub, etc. This is one of the reasons Java -- well, the JVM -- was so well-liked by a sizable community, despite the initial performance hit. All those fiddly hardware details Just Didn't Matter anymore, for the most part. (I liked it because I could develop on Linux, test on Solaris (and eventually OS X), and deploy the application wherever, all without ever having to touch a Winders box.) > In addition, VMWare gets far more field testing on different hardware > configurations that your product ever will. VMWare is much more likely > to have the resources to hunt down obscure interactions than you do. Standing up a whole VMWare instance to run an application makes me shake my head... This will no doubt be *loved* by those who demanded C/C++ programs because "Java is bloated, slow, and takes up too many resources".... -- Bitter? Nah. Didn't even toucher. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
