On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 14:34 +0000, samwise wrote:
There's a handout comparing the biggest three free virtual machine offerings available from the September ALUG Ipswich meeting notes, which lists some of the pros and cons between them.
I have always kicked myself for missing that meeting as although I have used VMware for a very long time I have not spent a lot of time looking at alternatives.
I am interested though as to why there was no mention of the VMware p2v converters in the product comparison. I would say that this is one of the most significant advantages VMware has over the (free) competition and is something that even MS Virtual Server can't do without 3rd party help. Also it is worth mention if only because of it's cleverness.
Did you feel that converting physical Windows machines to Virtual ones was beyond the scope of the demonstration or perhaps more suited to another evening ?