Comments on: Linux apps run directly on Windows with virtualization!

By: Jas

Jas — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:28:07 +0000

I would prefer run Windows application on Linux OS.

By: Joeg M.

Joeg M. — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:05:39 +0000

Nice post, but I think you missed the point of that brochure.

Look at some Microsoft market data:

server os market share: >60%
client os market share >90%
billions of profit year on year.

So what. If I were Microsoft, I would not need other OSs or application environments
to provide functionality to my customers, as VMware and others do.

Try to use ESX 4.0 completely without Windows. I think it’s not reasonable, if not impossible!

So in Microsoft’s view they have an OS with Hypervisor plus Applications and don’t need
more. They don’t need other OSs to make money. As nobody would in their position.

Greetings

By: Dave O.

Dave O. — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:13:51 +0000

This is hiliarous. Thanks for the laugh, Eric!

I about fell out of my chair, as well, when I saw the Command Prompt window and you trying to run “rpm -Uvh”.

BTW, what about the lovely Palo Alto bowl right next to Dinah’s…did they have power?

By: DougBaer

DougBaer — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:51:50 +0000

I just about fell out of my chair this morning when I read this. I came across the MS marketing doc on Tuesday and sent this diagram to my team along with a Marketing vs. Reality rant. Thanks for the entertainment!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:24:04 +0000

Maybe they wrote this from the southern hemisphere marketing department…it is summer after all which requires less layers….

By: Collin C. MacMillan

Collin C. MacMillan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:37:36 +0000

With Hyper-V, why not just double-down and use Kate instead of that WordPad cruft:

rpm -Uvh kate-4.3.1-3.7.x86_64.rpm

Mmmm! That’s good…

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:33:08 +0000

Excuse me, but 25% fewer layers than VMware is no joke. This is serious!

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:31:28 +0000

IPv6 is not a problem, since Windows and Hyper-V are already RFC-compliant.

The trick is to grab a recent 2.6 kernel module and load it as usual:

# modprobe ipv6

The rest is straightforward, but remember to use WordPad.

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:24:48 +0000

Awesome! One layer. Beat that, VMware!

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:24:11 +0000

Thanks, Jason. Today would be a good day to go bowling since there is no power on the VMware Palo Alto campus. Lemme know.