I expected posts like this to come flooding in. Posts by people who think virtualisation starts and ends with your efforts to get Ubuntu or Windows running in Virtualbox. Posts by people who have no idea what virtualisation in the enterprise is.

This post should be on 'shit HN says' but without the context it won't make any sense.

well, what is virtualization in the enterprise? would you care to enlighten the rest of us?

Basically a single physical server running 10's to 100's of virtualized servers. With all the management challenges that entails.

I've seen this but with farms / clusters of hundreds of servers.

Somewhat different to some home user sticking Ubuntu on his virtualbox....

We're closer to the tens end, luckily. I think we run about 4 dozen servers total.

The majority of their customers are corporate customers running ESX/ESXi, the only thing you could switch to would be Hyper-V.

oVirt is also an option, but your point that VMWare did not collect $1.3B from people wanting to try out Ubuntu on their laptops stands.

(Disclosure: I am not unbiased)

This may be a dumb question ... but why would you limit yourself to that option ?

VMWare images can be imported onto every virtualization system on the planet. Virtualbox, Qemu, KVM, even Bochs can import VMWare images ...

What is the limiting factor ?

VirtualBox is very very slow on my PC, VMware player is faster.