Microsoft Hypervisor becoming a real issueAnswered

More and more of our customers are refusing to disable Hypervisor, as on many new Windows 11 PCs it is enabled by default.

Will you soon have a solution, such as your ever promised TFL server?

Hosted TFS on LicenseChest is coming Q1 2022.

Multiple alternatives and stop-gaps are listed in our docs and throughout this forum.

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I've tried a search, and cannot find the alternatives & stop-gaps you mention.
Any chance you can post e few links for me?

  • TFS on their infrastructure.
  • TFS on your infrastructure.
  • TFS on our infrastructure (coming soon).
  • Turn off hypervisor and use TA.

We have the same problems without a proper solution:

  1. TFS on their infrastructure is not possible when 100% of the infrastructure is virtual / cloud
  2. TFS on your infrastructure would be fine if you'd allow multiple instances of TFS on the same server. If not we'd need to spawn 1 server per customer which results in very high costs. I suspect that this limitation is in place to better sell “TFS on our infrastructure (coming soon).” in the future
  3. TFS on our infrastructure (coming soon). We've read that one for years now and will only believe it when I see it
  4. Turn off hypervisor and use TA is not possible in modern days as developer frequently use Docker and Microsoft is actively pushing for Windows Subsystem for Linux which is gaining traction from a lot of our users
     

Hosted TFS on LicenseChest is coming Q1 2022.

Any news, as we kinda are at the end of Q1 2022…?

Answer

Soon.

I know the answer is always ‘soon’, and you dislike questions being asked about the timescale, but we are really as well into Q2 of 2022 now…

Is there really no schedule update available?

Answer

We don't release internal roadmaps; never have, never will. We rarely give public estimates anymore, and we regret it every time we do.

We do plan on improving estimates: but that's a large engineering and social problem in itself that requires dedicated resources that we've spent very little on so far.

Long story short: LicenseChest is a large product that is nearing completion and it will be out when it's out. We don't release half-baked products. And there are a number of viable alternatives to using TFS hosted on our infrastructure (listed above)

So, same answer as always: soon.

Another 4 month have passed…
Should we be looking for an alternative solution?

It's coming soon.

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