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| By special contributor Drumhellar on 2012-06-28 11:18:22 |
| Since its introduction at Microsoft's BUILD conference last September, Windows 8 has garnered a large measure of attention, especially with regards to the new Metro interface. The feature that intrigued me the most, however, was the inclusion of Hyper-V. |
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| Comment by frood |
| By frood on 2012-06-28 12:07:01 |
| Very interesting article. Thanks |
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| Good article |
| By Flatland_Spider on 2012-06-28 12:38:37 |
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Good article. I would have like for you to have explained yourself a little more when you mentioned competing products, but this wasn't a vs. article. Also, VMware kind of came out of nowhere. I thought you were just comparing to VirtualBox, then VMware comes in. What version of VMware was that anyway? ESX, ESXi, vSphere 5, Workstation, Server, Player? > Hyper-V is close to be ready for widespread desktop use. The performance is there, as are the heavyweight features. However, the complete lack of of desktop integration makes it cumbersome to use. That's the exact same reason I'm using VirtualBox over KVM. USB, sound, and file passthrough are there; it's the lack of a fullscreen display resolution that gets me. |
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| RE: Good article |
| By Soulbender on 2012-06-28 13:07:02 |
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> it's the lack of a fullscreen display resolution that gets me. Maybe I am misunderstanding you but VirtualBox can run in fullscreen mode and the resolution adapts to your monitor. |
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| No NAT? |
| By BrianH on 2012-06-28 13:14:48 |
| There's no NAT? What about Internet Connection Sharing, does that still exist for Windows 8? If so, that would work. |
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| on the desktop |
| By l3v1 on 2012-06-28 14:04:49 |
| So, we're talking about virtualization for desktop use. For such scenariosn, the things listed (no NAT, sound or USB, no shared folders, also "If you have other VM software installed at the same time, it will likely refuse to run") do not make it particularly interesting and/or usable. I'd take VBox any day for desktop use over it. |
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| RE: Good article |
| By tanzam75 on 2012-06-28 15:58:22 |
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> I thought you were just comparing to VirtualBox, then VMware comes in. What version of VMware was that anyway? ESX, ESXi, vSphere 5, Workstation, Server, Player? Hyper-V is really designed to compete against ESX, ESXi, and vSphere. VMware Workstation is in a different class of product. VMware Server has reached end-of-life. |
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| RE: No NAT? |
| By tanzam75 on 2012-06-28 16:03:13 |
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On Windows Server, you could setup NAT by installing the routing role on the host machine. Not sure how it is on Windows client. Perhaps they're planning to make the integration available via a post-RTM install, like they did with XP Mode on Windows 7? But XP is going to reach end-of-life soon, so are they still making it available for enterprise customers? |
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| Comment by andih |
| By andih on 2012-06-28 16:24:26 |
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Hyper-V = lol I would never ever put windows on iron. never. and even less, put guests on top of it.. But I avoid windows in general. Virtualbox is ok for playing around with OSes for noobs. VMWare, for big enterprise that needs lots of bells and whistles and pay well.. KVM awesome (a tool for pros, arguable faster than vmware) For dedicated server or on desktop. Xen too |
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| RE: Good article |
| By Drumhellar on 2012-06-28 16:46:31 |
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> Also, VMware kind of came out of nowhere. I thought you were just comparing to VirtualBox, then VMware comes in. What version of VMware was that anyway? ESX, ESXi, vSphere 5, Workstation, Server, Player? Oops. I was comparing against both VirtualBox an VMWare Workstation at different times. I used to use VirtualBox, but now I have access to VMWare Workstation 8, which I've found to be much more stable than VirtualBox. |
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| FreeBSD will be supported on Hyper-V. |
| By jkim on 2012-06-28 16:49:09 |
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FreeBSD will be officially supported as a Hyper-V guest. http://blogs.technet.com/b/openn... It was presented at BSDCan 2012. http://www.bsdcan.org/2012/sched... |
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