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Thanks, <br />
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definately dont see any point in Hyper-V yet. &nbsp;ESX is free runs great, easy server converstions.
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Thanks,

definately dont see any point in Hyper-V yet.  ESX is free runs great, easy server converstions.

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We have VMWARE ESX 3.5 servers running and its a small kernel of it just runs on a server.<br />
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We testing Microsoft Hyper-V was hoping it would be something similar, but seems that it runs on top of Windows2008 server, maybe i am missing something, anyway to boot into that Hyper-V kernel without loading windows in the background?<br />
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If not I dont really see the point of Windows 2008 Hyper-V, ESX is free no need base OS, runs small kernel of ESX and I think performance would be so much better without any other OS running it.<br />
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We have VMWARE ESX 3.5 servers running and its a small kernel of it just runs on a server.

We testing Microsoft Hyper-V was hoping it would be something similar, but seems that it runs on top of Windows2008 server, maybe i am missing something, anyway to boot into that Hyper-V kernel without loading windows in the background?

If not I dont really see the point of Windows 2008 Hyper-V, ESX is free no need base OS, runs small kernel of ESX and I think performance would be so much better without any other OS running it.



Can you boot windows 2008 into some basic Hyper-V without OS

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.