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[Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 25, 2012, at 7:44 PM, Michael March wrote:

> I just curious. Is anyone using the VMware functionality in OpenStack?  
> 
> I'm getting the feeling that it is more of a 'check box' thing of "yeah, we have that hypervisor covered" than something that's seriously being used.
> 
> If my feeling is wrong, I'd like to know. 

I am hoping some commercial interests take over the esx hypervisor.  It is definitely behind kvm and xen, and I think this is only because no one is committing development resources to improve it.  The other hypervisors seem to get more support.  Hyper-V will be coming back because Microsoft has made a big commitment to it. Hopefully vmware or some other commercial entity cares enough to start really putting development effort into it.

Vish