Problems in VMWare
As many of you know, I do not care for virtualization as a solution to simulate multiple environments when testing; I’d rather have actual hardware to represent as many possible combinations of user environments as I can. Virtualization software is just another set of excuses that your development staff can use to avoid investigating and fixing their own bugs. Stories like this one give them data points and anecdotes to push you off:
A set of newly discovered flaws in components of VMware Inc.’s virtual machine software has called attention to some of the security risks associated with the practice of running virtual computers on a single system.
It’s not just security problems, but performance and whatever else that can fail, invisibly, that can provide erroneous defective behavior in your software.
Besides, all kinds of shiny hardware is pretty and keeps the QA lab warm in the winter.
