d3aths3rver said:
To implement this Linux would have to be compatible with all the drivers
of a high powered server. Noone would would give up their time for free
to make them compatible.
Compatible? Heck, they blow away Windows drivers so bad... In fact
Windows often runs faster in a VM.
On top of that, Having different Windows installations on a linux cloud
would slow it down considerably, not to mention the workload that a
linux pc would be subjected to, Linux just doesnt have the finances to
make this idea come into fruition.
No one said MS Windows was efficient. As for the finances, the vendors
work on it. Much of what is needed is already out there just needing to
be integrated.
For every 100 IT people that are familiar with windows, there is only 1
person familiar with Red Hat.
The VM host is skinnied down. They wouldn't need Open Office or
Evolution or Thunderbird or a host of other things. Even make it web
based so no need to login.
I will go further, most IT organizations have 99 chiefs and 1 tech savvy
person. Much of todays IT is really backwards. I prefer the old days
where a pool of geeks gets a visit from the business side, they explain
the problem and not the solution, then the geeks, with no handicaps go
for a nice solution.
And then to make them compatible, there are always problems. Vmware is
a biatch from personal experience installing it on servers, you are
always better to install different OS's On different servers, depending
on the speed of the server, the job it will do and the compatibility of
that OS with the others in the network.
Can't say I have had that problem, Linux, Solaris on VMWare with
MS-Windows seems to work nicely. But you do hint on the #1 VM abuse
there is. Overloading it. The propensity of management to put 20 VMs
of Windows on one under powered system shows ho stupid they are. But
what the heck, sure better than 30 different Windows servers to manage,.
But that is servers.
I mean desktops. Where I ould have Vista and Red Hat running at once.
By using a VM, it abstracts much of the Windows problematic drivers into
the more stable host OS. Windows oftn even behaves better. I have seen
this more than once where Windows becomes more stable by putting it in a
VM, and turn off auto/usb and other crap you don't need.
