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I've questions about this.
People are talking about it like it is the greatest thing ever, however, isn't this yet another result of the Broadcom acquisition? After firing a bunch of people , now this. Maybe they just don't want to maintain the "existing proprietary virtualization code" so they're moving to KVM. Less costs, less people.
I honestly don't know how this could turn out.
It could be an amazing change that results in much more progress for hardware acceleration on guests of various types (since that is what vmware is good at) in kvm...
Or it could mean that they are dropping that feature from vmware altogether.
Regardless, I like this change because it means I would be able to run vmware machines and libvirt kvm machines at the same time, at least when I am forced to use vmware workstation.
I also dislike proprietary software in general, so I think less proprietary software and more FOSS is a good thing.
It could be an amazing change that results in much more progress for hardware acceleration on guests of various types (since that is what vmware is good at) in kvm…
Yeah but VMware was good. And I'm not seeing Broadcom investing into porting the "proprietary goodness" of VMware into KVM. I just see then looking at KVM and saying "that's good enough" and seeing it a cost reduction measure.
Hell seems to be freezing over at an alarming rate these days; climate change is getting pretty extreme down there too huh?
If we get VirtIO 3D acceleration in Windows guests from this, I'd be really happy.
I found this: https://github.com/tenclass/mvisor-win-vgpu-driver
But it is for another foss kvm based hypervisor called mvisor.
There's a WIP VirtIO driver in a PR but it's not done yet. VMware's own VMSVGA is open source if I remember correctly. I wonder if they'll adapt it to KVM and if they do, whether that'll be usable in KVM without VMware.
That means migrating away from VMWare, which is a must for many nowadays, will be even easier. Good news!