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Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:02:10 +0000

Yea, it's not about cost savings for some disk space/RAM or whatever, but about the attack surface and complexity (and possible points of failure/maintainance/patch requirements at that) that make a “Hypervisor-only OS” more reasonable as a host system, compared to a general purpose OS with a Hypervisor.

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By: Dracolith

Dracolith — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:18:34 +0000

Sometimes I think MS/VMware cheapen their products by arguing over such petty matters; VMware has a lot of real advantages disk footprint is of miniscule importance compared to others.

Disk space is cheap, so is RAM these days. It's no big deal in my book if a hypervisor takes up 512mb of RAM and a few GBs of disk. Neither of these really says all that much about hypervisor security or quality. Code quality is what's important, and i'm doubting that most of the space in a Hyper-V install is used by the hypervisor itself; most of it is probably support libraries used by the management stack.

Hm.. and Hyper-V still has a bigger disk footprint despite all the things VMware is including.
Until the ESXi installer provides an option to only install the hypervisor, though (for people who really want to minimize disk usage, and fit their install on a 128MB compact flash card), I have gotta count those extra items against the ESXi disk footprint.

Just like all those software tools in Hyper-V server that aren't actually used by the hypervisor still count towards its disk footprint.

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By: Vladan

Vladan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:08:49 +0000

VMware is supporting about 60 OS for a guest OS, so we have to “pay the price” somewhere… -:)

http://www.vmware.com/technology/whyvmware/gues…

The bigger size of the download ISO file is why…