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1. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Monday, 02-Feb-2015 14:42:35 EST Jeff Ratliff

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   It's not terribly exciting.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Monday, 02-Feb-2015 14:55:14 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • mcscx
     VMware works, but it's severely limited if you don't have money to spend. I use KVM at home but have 2 ESXi hosts at work.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Monday, 02-Feb-2015 22:51:39 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • mcscx
     ESXi not much like Linux. Command line tools are poor. File system is FAT based. They expect you to do all from the GUI.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 20:06:43 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • mcscx
     ESXi is completely free as in beer. But it's not very useful without the paid part. I'm not sure you can even build a VM with just ESXi.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 20:08:20 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • mcscx
     At work I use the vSphere client to manage VMs which used to be free but you can't get it anymore. It's pretty limited too.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 20:38:16 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     If you have limited hosts and don't need to migrate VMs, vSphere is OK. But I can't find it for download on VMWare's site anymore.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 20:39:20 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • mcscx
     OK. I've never tried to build a VM from the command line in ESX. Although I've done it with KVM plenty of times.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 20:55:35 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • mcscx
     OK. ESX and vSphere are not the same. vSphere is not free. You may be able to get it for free, but I expect sooner or later you'll have ..
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 20:55:36 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • mcscx
     .. to pay.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 21:06:24 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • mcscx
     Right. They want you to depend on their platform so it's easier to pay than switch. That attitude of lock-in is throughout the software.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 22:51:23 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • kat
     I forgot that there is a web based client for ESX. But it only works for later versions than I use. I've also connected with VNC on a Mac
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 22:52:56 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • mcscx
     You can run an image as a VM that gives you a web based client. I think you need ESXi 5.5, and we run 5.0 at work.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 23:01:46 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • Coyo
     Hello. Good to see you too. I've definitely been in and out over the last 6 months.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Feb-2015 18:25:04 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • kat
     VMWare usually makes me want to kick someone. That makes me even more irritated. Can't be that hard to be cross platform.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2015 12:43:57 EDT Jeff Ratliff

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     • Coyo
     My instance still runs StatusNet. GNUSocial took over maintaining StatusNet code so it's not really a fork. So far it's not much different.