Comment Why Virtualize? (Score 1) 122
Why do they need to virtualize it? Linux has better methods of "virtualizing" with a lot less overhead. OpenVZ and LXC being two.
From the way it sounds, it runs like a desktop hypervisor - so it's a hardware layer virtualization.
OpenVZ and LXC run like Solaris Containers and FreeBSD Jails.. OS level virtualization. They're still isolated, but they share the same kernel, so a second kernel doesn't need to run - saving resources and CPU time.
Why does VMWare need to make it more complicated than it really needs to be?