Posts by Mye 4 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jul 2022
As they say, nobody ever got fired for buying ESXi. But that perspective prevents people from seeing good alternatives.
Of all the virtualization solutions available, only VMware and XCP-ng+XO provide complete end-to-end solutions that are not a bag of parts. XCP-ng has become my go-to virtualization solution, especially since Broadcom bought VMware
I use xcp-ng in production at three customer sites. The current version of XenOrchestra will import VMware virtual machines directly into XCP-ng and XO. I've imported several VMware virtual machines (Windows and Linux) and the only virtual machines that gave me trouble were when the guest OSs were more than five or six years old.
I agree with you that XO and XCP-ng are not yet as feature-full as VMware, but in my day-to-day use, there is no functional difference between the two except that I find XO much easier to work with than anything from VMware.
Kind of. Xcp-ng is a fork of the original xen hypervisor.
I've worked with all the big hypervisor players in various organizations and I found that xcpng plus xen orchestra to be one of the easier systems to manage and provide better functionality for the dollar then any of the others.
Xen lost popularity because of Citrix and it's predatory pricing, not anything to do with its technical foundations, which I consider solid.
It's worth spending the time to understand xcp-ng and xen orchestra
Whatever it generates it's not your unattributed code. There are numerous occasions where I have found code functionally identical to what I've written on a commercial project inside an Open source project. My code came first. Should the open source project license my code from the company I worked for?
After decades in software development, I've come to conclusion that the same code will be generated over and over again in different contexts and different languages because we work with a very small and very finite set of ways of expressing solutions to problems in code.
Even in cases where there are multiple solutions to a problem, the number of solutions can be counted one or at most two hands.
In other words, plagiarism is inevitable because the same description can cause multiple programmers to create the same code and that is what we have here, Give co-pilot a description and from that description it uses its trained networking to generate code from scratch. It's not copying your code or anybody else's code. It is generating the new code based on your description.
Copilot is working just like a human programmer in that it recognize a pattern and reapplying that pattern in new contexts. The only difference is that it is able to scan many orders of magnitude of code then you can in order to be able to identify patterns and figure out how to generate similar code based on a description. Another way of thinking about is that it's like you on stack overflow except much much more efficient.
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