[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/5/2021 9:43 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 8/5/21 9:29 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 8/5/2021 9:16 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 8/5/21 8:38 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>>> "Everyone" has a laptop supporting VirtualBox.
>>>>
>>>> "VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts..."
>>>
>>> Two things:
>>>
>>> 1. Unless it has changed considerably from the last time I ran it for
>>> anything, VirtualBox is unsuited for any kind of production environment.
>>> And development of software intended for use in a production environment
>>> is also production.
>>
>> Not really.
>>
>> Development environments are quite different from production 
>> environments.
>>
>> Windows 7 or 10 vs Windows Server 2016 or 2019 is very clear.
>>
>> Ubuntu or whatever vs RHEL or CentOS / Rocky Linux is also somewhat 
>> distinct.
> 
> You are looking at it from the standpoint of features I am looking
> at from the standpoint reliability and usability.  As you might
> imagine at this point, I was not impressed with VirtualBox as
> compared to things like VMWare and Hyper-V.

Regarding reliability then they are targetting different
markets.

VirtualBox is a development desktop thing.

VMWare and Hyper-V is a production server thing.

Regarding usability then VirtualBox seems pretty nice to me.

>>> 2, Many people here have expressed their desire to work in a VMS
>>> environment.  Not Linux, not Mac and certainly not Windows.  For
>>> one thing, it requires the acquisition of knowledge they may not
>>> wish to have.  This could be a deal breaker.  Management may see
>>> it as: "If I have to run Linux in order to run VMS, why am I
>>> running VMS?"
>>
>> If you develop for or study VMS then you certainly need
>> VMS.
>>
>> But most people will have something else than VMS running
>> today.
>>
>> We all know about one exception. But I think that is an exception.
> 
> My grandson uses ChromeOS.  I really don't expect he knows how to
> administer it.  Running VirtualBox is not in a production environment
> is not just a user task.

VirtualBox should not be used in a production environment.

VMWare (or KVM or Hyper-V) should and such products
require a bit more skills.

But it is skills that most system admins have today.

>           Like it or not, VM's are not the ultimate answer to
> everyone's desires.

True.

VM's are old technology.

Today it is containers that are hot.

But since VMS does not support containers then we will have
to do VM's.

:-)

Arne