Where’s the old Connectix programmers?
LOL!
Microsoft acquired Connectix back in 2003. Ostensibly, Connectix's VirtualPC became what Microsoft now calls Hyper-V.
Albeit, despite having had decades of virtualization experience, the most interesting story I have about Hyper-V is that running Ubuntu in a Hyper-V VM was approximately 4X faster than the Windows Subsystem for Linux when I last ran benchmarks. Albeit, WSL is still better than Cygwin DLL hells, but the entire OS just feels as if it is a steaming pile of bitrot foisted on gamers and those who never learned to compile code from source.
As for me, I long since migrated away from VMWare in personal and professional use preferring FreeBSD's bhyve (and rarely: the macOS port xhyve) and to a lesser extent OpenBSD's vmm. It is with much admonition that I have observed many of my contemporaries gravitate instead towards Docker, and AWS (be it KVM or its previous Xen iteration) rather than run bare metal hardware in their own offices or rented rack space in datacenters for significantly less operating cost. Hardware is really inexpensive now! Don't get lured into recurring subscription cost SAAS fallacies!
Everyone I have known at VMWare, long since left and that they were this slow on the uptake behind Parallels for Apple Silicon/M1 adoption, I read as a sign that they've slipped behind even further and have been coasting on their laurels that have long since been supplanted by libre/free open source software alternatives.
The last time I bothered with much in the way of running a hypervisor on a Mac was with a maxed out 2014 rMBP with its at the time, decent quad cores and 16GB of RAM. It was still a far cry from the hundreds of gigs of RAM in server blades I had access to, but for unusual local test cases was still sort of useful, sometimes, albeit really rarely in practice.
Last year, I sold a laptop which could be kitted up with 64GB of RAM and dual MXM GPUs running in SLI and had a pretty significant amount of CPU cores too, dual power supplies were even an option! It was veritably, about as close to a luggable server as I have ever owned.
Turns out: I never want to lug a server. I want them racked in a datacenter with faster uplinks than I can ever find when I have a portable device.
Thin and light seems to be where it is at for portable devices, and for everything else there's VNC or RDP tunneled over a VPN to beefier hardware in a datacenter (as the laptop sticker jokes: "My other computer is a datacenter.").
I think the most dumbfounding thing I read was that VMWare doesn't officially support ESXi on the current generation of Mac Pros. At least those can be kitted up with 1.5TB of RAM (still a far cry from the 24+TB of RAM my contemporaries are running in servers these days) and can, in theory, run macOS without violating Apple's EULA. Albeit, I last administered such deployments circa 2015 when I was a Senior System Administrator for Sauce Labs. At the time, the biggest pain was that the vintage Mac Pros we were using, could not be rack mounted. The present 2019 revision of Mac Pros do have a rack mount kit, but if VMWare hasn't even been offering ESXi on those? What a waste. A complete failure to grasp their dwindling user base.
Everyone else, moved onto other hypervisors, long ago.
