Despite being critical this sounds like the author is still wearing quite VMware-colored glasses:<p>&gt; Unfortunately, the world that they built is now eating them. Hypervisors became commodity, where &quot;good enough&quot; is an acceptable target. Hyper-V, Xen, KVM: they all became good enough for ecosystems to be built around them<p>In reality VMware (and VirtualBox) were leapfrogged by platform native hypervisors quality-wise, at least on Linux. Which is inevitable since there isn&#x27;t really any way to ship robust proprietary binary-only kernel drivers of this complexity there.<p>(ESXi might be another story, but it&#x27;s also not just a hypervisor, it&#x27;s a whole stack of enterprisey proprietary infrastructure that you commit to instead of open systems, and hopping on that train is more a cultural&#x2F;strategy&#x2F;mindset choice than something based on technical hypervisor-vs-hypervisor benchmark)