Broadcom is killing off VMware’s on-premises perpetual licenses – and getting set to strong-arm VMware customers onto subscriptions, by also ending the sale of Support and Subscription renewals for such customers....
Personally, I am trying to get rid of all 'subscription-based' software solutions, even on mobile devices, unless they offer extremely advantageous costs.
Profit should come from the quality of work done in security, innovation, technology, and efficiency, not from depriving the right to use unless a subscription fee is paid. The innovations should encourage the user to be motivated to continue investing in a solution, not the noose around the neck of the cessation of the right to use the software itself
The Broadcom acquisition of VMware was never going to be good for customers. Now, they are killing off perpetual licenses for some of the most popular packages and suites, including: VMware vSphere, Cloud Foundation, and vCloud. Now, customers will be stuck with subscriptions.
Never a better time to look at XCP-ng, Proxmox, etc.
Ars Technica: Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales, testing customers and partners
Super happy that I managed to migrate all of my existing #Virtuabox VMs across to VMware. It's been like 15 years since I last looked at #VMware. My bad. It's awesome. Not $200-for-the-full-version awesome, but free for the Player is good enough for right now.
After many years of using Oracle #Virtualbox (due to being able to use it for commercial purposes for free), I just installed and tried out #VMWare Player 17. Jesus christ is it fast! Booted stock Ubuntu 23.10 in about 11 seconds. Virtualbox was an absolute dog. That's it - I'm converting my virtualbox images over - hope that's possible.
I also successfully created/restored a backup with my new 2TB SSD, so I’ll spend this month working on a more advanced/automated setup with it (e.g. Timeshift).
EDIT: Officially gave up on #VMware 😂 Converting .vmdk to .qcow2 with qemu-img on Fedora 38 didn't quite work, and I eventually hit the "unable to install all modules" error with the GCC/kernel headers issue on Fedora 39. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87859
Broadcom is killing off VMware perpetual licences (www.thestack.technology)
Broadcom is killing off VMware’s on-premises perpetual licenses – and getting set to strong-arm VMware customers onto subscriptions, by also ending the sale of Support and Subscription renewals for such customers....