[Info-vax] Broadcom ends availablility of the free edition ESXi Hypervisor

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/14/2024 8:17 AM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> On 2/12/2024 12:42 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> For those of you using the free ESXi Hypervisor to run VMS on x86-64,
>> be aware Broadcom have now removed the free edition download:
>>
>> https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2107518?lang=en_US
>>
>>  From that document:
>>
>> |Along with the termination of perpetual licensing, Broadcom has also
>> |decided to discontinue the Free ESXi Hypervisor, marking it as EOGA (End
>> |of General Availability).
> 
> So as a Hobbyist/casual user of OpenVMS, which virtualization platform 
> would you switch to if leaving VMWare?  Oracle's VirtualBox or a KVM 
> derivative?  Why?  Something that runs on Linux, hopefully, rather than 
> Windows based.

As a hobbyist VMS user then ESXi seems like an overkill anyway.

VMWare Player seems like a better fit. And it is still free for
personal non-commercial use (similar to VMS community license
program).

Arne