I love elegant but useless hacks. There’s something artful about hacks that provide no real value, other than to make a statement;
“Yes, this can be done”
It’s like scaling Everest, or BASE Jumping the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. But why do it? Take, for example, this hack:
Run VMware ESX 3 in a VMware Workstation 6 virtual machine.
Can someone please explain to me why this is useful?
I’m not trying to be being obtuse, or short sighted. I see the benefit of running ESX within a desktop virtualization platform for, say, quick development purposes, or simply to familiarize one self with the product. But surely you have a hunk of hardware lying around that would better host ESX and give you more of a real-world feel for it? Besides, ESX isn’t free. You have 60 days to evaluate it, and surely you’re not going to purchase a license to run it in a virtual machine. ESXi is free and can apparently be coerced to run virtualized as well.
So, are hackers artists? Running a virtualization platform inside a virtualization platform is interesting, but not particularly useful. It’s a beer’s worth of discussion, but much more than that and you’re thinking too hard about it. Move on to the next piece in the gallery.
Tags: esx, hack, virtualization, VMware
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