A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI

Re:A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI by danieldk on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @09:34AM (#10980153)

This is really a shame. I am really hoping Veertu[1] will be a thing, because the idea seems to be really nice: providing a good UI for OS X's hypervisor framework.

[1] http://veertu.com/

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Re:A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI by Cyberdog on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @02:41PM (#10982480)

I installed Veertu it and gave it a try. I'm mostly interested in hosting FreeBSD clients, so I was happy to see a FreeBSD net install disk image in its list of options, but the client kernel panics as it boots. Fusion supports FreeBSD (and any other OS I've thrown at it in recent memory) flawlessly… Guess I'll stick with it for now.

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Re:A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI by toyg on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @04:57PM (#10983819)

Does it have it's own format for images, or does it support VMX / VMDK ?

I'm sick at the thought of having to deal with Yet Another VM Format.

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Re:A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI by Cyberdog on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:58PM (#11014897)

I had a FreeBSD VMDK, but I couldn't figure out how to get Veertu to open it, so if Veertu does support it, it's not obvious how.

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Re:A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI by x0x0 on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @03:00PM (#10982706)

I had no idea osx had a hypervisor framework. It showed up in 10.10!

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/MacOSX/...

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Re:A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI by danieldk on Thursday January 28, 2016 @01:24AM (#10986673)

It does :). There is also an ecosystem developing around it, e.g. the xhyve tool:

https://github.com/mist64/xhyve

CoreOS on xhyve:

https://github.com/coreos/coreos-xhyve

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