@Oksana said in What is the Best Type-2 Hypervisor?:

1200_628_Oracle Virtual Box vs VM Workstation vs [email protected]

Wondering what’s the difference between Oracle VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, and QEMU? Check out our latest comprehensive comparison by Dmytro Malynka, StarWind Product Manager, to choose the best Type 2 hypervisor for your virtualization projects. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/9S

This graphic is very deceptive. The article never mentions using QEMU with VirtualBox, only KVM.

@dustinb3403 said in VM disappearing after closing VMWare workstation:

Do you mean it powers off? Or disappears?

disappears

From what I am reading now, it appears that the OVF uses compression level 5. It is possible to gain extra compression by using a tool like 7 zip but the gains are very minimal. On a 4GB VM you may see it drop to 3.9GB if you compress it again using 7zip. The minor gain isn't worth having to compress it twice IMO.

@MattSpeller said:

@scottalanmiller I agree on @Dashrender with this one, production stuff should be on production gear unless it's a really tiny job

Well we pretty much know the size, if it runs in a VM on a Type 2, it's not big. And if we are just talking about some math, what's the purpose of production gear?

My dad used to do linear algebra for Eastman Kodak. He could use the mainframe when needed, but mostly they just bought him a high end laptop and let him take it home. Meant he could do his math modeling anywhere, anytime. Was much more flexible. Unless he had a rush job, no reason to tie up the mainframe.

Apparently he is not the only one with confusion around this...

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1186383-unable-to-join-esxi-host-to-the-domain-no-suitable-fqdn

What perfect timing!

@Lakshmana said:

i know but in my office not to update to OS version since I hav easked my manager no reply to update .

I thought that you were no longer there and doing work at home according to the other thread.