I actually had so many troubles with vmware on windows over the years that once I tried out hyper-v for the first time last year, I somehow have never touched vmware again. Sure vmware has better configs, cleaner interface and some very subtle design advantages. But damn, hyper-v just fucking works and it keeps working across updates. I have a VM that has been running for a year and it is still perfectly doing exactly what it should. I never experienced that with vmware.

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simoncion 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> I actually had so many troubles with vmware on windows...

I assume this means that you were using Vmware Workstation? The VDDK is for Vmware vSphere, which -IIRC- runs on Linux and coordinates computers running ESXi, which are where vSphere VMs actually run.

Not that many people are going to be using Vmware Workstation to run a large number of VMs.

	▲	protocolture 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I remember reading some obscure customer doco that "The old fax server is running on the virtual host" And I was like... what virtual host? What I found was Server 2003 running on VMWare Workstation, running on a Windows 7 Dell PC sitting at the bottom of a rack. A lot of people think VMWare Workstation is the pinnacle product of the company and I have NFI how this came to be.