On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:34:42AM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote:
> Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Mon, 10 Oct:
> > > I need a VMware internals expert urgently;
> > > 
> > > The problem is too complex to detail it here, and it may be off-topic
> > 
> > I know no VMware expert, but you might be interested in qemu.
> 
> Did, sounds like the guy needs urgent help with a crashed VM that won't
> start or something, NOT the right time to offer a competing FOSS project
> with less features and yet another lerning curve, unless it was one that
> had access to the API of VMware's file structure and could serve as an
> in-place replacement for it.

What Ira said. And while you're at it, Xen is much more of a VMWare
replacement than qemu.

> As for internals experts - Shachar put it correctly in words. Especially
> if you are talking about an ESX server rather than a workstation version
> - VMware is one big, obfuscated monster. Official support in Israel is
> given by "We!" and I doubt they are much smarter than the rest of
> us.

It's closed source; contact VMWare. Now if you were asking about, oh
for example, Xen... that would be a completely different answer.

Cheers,
Muli
-- 
Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/


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