Hyper-V

8 engineers on Hacker News describe using Hyper-V first-hand: 1 endorse it, 4 regret it, 0 are mixed.

29%trust
8first-hand users
6in production
endorse 1mixed 0regret 4uses, no opinion

“the MS tooling was garbage, and we had a lot of operational networking issues.”

regret · production · Spooky23 · 2021-01-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using it at home and work since Windows 8. ... Hyper-V just works.”

endorse · production · 7 yr · hermitdev · 2019-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Hyper-V is just painfully slow compared to Parallels.”

regret · personal · SyneRyder · 2018-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I had nothing but pain with Hyper-V hosting Linux, to the point we joked it came with Chaos Monkey built in.”

regret · production · rbanffy · 2017-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've run Hyper-V in production with SCVMM. No thanks.”

regret · production · cjsuk · 2017-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Then we got Hyper-V because it was free and VMWare was getting needy and expensive.”

neutral · production · minkles · 2024-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I do use Hyper-V to run Debian constantly.”

neutral · personal · password4321 · 2022-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The initial reason was that it needed to run on Hyper-V”

neutral · production · krylon · 2017-08-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?