<div>The restriction in the EULA seems overly broad to me.</div>
<div>First, it seems unenforceable (but I'm not a lawyer). Imaging a publisher who says "you may read this book but you may not publish a review of it without approval from us first" or GM saying "you may drive this car but you may not divulge your MPG or cruising speed" etc.
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<div>Second, it seems highly undesirable for VMWare to enforce it. Would they want to bring more publicity to bad performance results by suing the whistleblower? who is only a customer, not an employee? Of course anyone would sue in the case of libel by fabricating or otherwise mistating poor results.
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<div>I have nothing against VMWare but I dislike unenforceable, overly-broad restriction clauses. </div>
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<div>Peter (YJMV, your jurisdiction may vary :-)<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Olli-Pekka Lehto</b> <<a href="mailto:oplehto@csc.fi">oplehto@csc.fi</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:<br>> The recent emails from rgb and Doug lead me to a question. Has anyone<br>
> tested codes running under a VM versus running them "natively" on<br>> the hardware (native isn't a good word and I hope everyone gets my<br>> meaning)? The last word I heard is that performance takes a substantial
<br>> hit if you are running a code in a VM. Some of the reasons are that the<br>> code has only virtualized access to the hardware (particularly the NICs)<br>> and memory management is a bit more difficult (although Barcelona with
<br>> nested page tables should help there). I do remember VirtualIron saying<br>> that they had IB drivers so that the VM had direct access to the hardware.<br>><br>> Thanks!<br>><br>> Jeff<br>><br><br>
I ran some comparisons this spring on a small 4*2P AMD Opteron cluster<br>using VMWare Player and Workstation. The results seemed quite promising<br>and I'd like to share them but the VMWare EULA restricts the publication
<br>of unvetted results:<br><br>"You may use the Software to conduct internal performance testing and<br>benchmarking studies, the results of which you (and not unauthorized<br>third parties) may publish or publicly disseminate; provided that VMware
<br>has reviewed and approved of the methodology, assumptions and other<br>parameters of the study. Please contact VMware at <a href="mailto:benchmark@vmware.com">benchmark@vmware.com</a><br>to request such review."<br>
<br>I just sent a request to VMWare about this. Let's see what they say...<br><br>--<br>Olli-Pekka Lehto, Systems Specialist, Special Computing, CSC<br>PO Box 405 02101 Espoo, Finland; tel +358 9 457 2215, fax +358 9 4572302
<br>CSC is the Finnish IT Center for Science, <a href="http://www.csc.fi">www.csc.fi</a>,<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:Olli-Pekka.Lehto@csc.fi">Olli-Pekka.Lehto@csc.fi</a><br><br>_______________________________________________
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