Simon Crosby of Citrix Discusses Virtualization Heading into 2008
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| Q: How has the Citrix/XenSource acquisition affected the Xen open source
| community? Can you tell us a little more about how this has played out?
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| A: As of Jan 1 the Xen project will have its first full time program manager
| focused solely on community development, and we will soon double the size of
| our open source development team – all courtesy of Citrix. The net effect
| will be an increased rate of development on Xen, from Itanium super computers
| to ARM based PDAs.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2007/12/simon_crosby_of.html
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Linux Embraces KVM Virtualization
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| Qumranet says the difference between Xen and KVM is that Xen is an external
| hypervisor that assumes control of the machines and divides resources among
| guests while KVM is part of Linux and uses the regular Linux scheduler and
| memory management. It says it's smaller and simpler to use and sometimes
| faster.
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http://www.sys-con.com/read/341280_p.htm
Linux Kernel Goes Virtual: A Challenge to Xen?
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| KVM virtualization in Linux 2.6.20 could potentially challenge
| open source virtualization specialist Xen, which has been aiming
| for Linux kernel inclusion for nearly two years. KVM was created
| and is maintained by technology start-up Qumranet.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3659196
Qumranet reveals reason for all that KVM work
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| Given how much time and money it had sunk into KVM the Linux-based,
| open-source virtualization project, it's not a surprise that that
| stealth-mode start-up Qumranet was working on virtualization. But until
| Monday, the company refused to say just exactly how.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9783918-39.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Increasing Virtualization Insanity
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| For sysadmin types this means: do what you have to do with Xen for now. But
| keep the investments small. For developers this means: don't let yourself be
| tied to a platform. Use an abstraction layer such as libvirt to bridge over
| the differences. For architects this means: don't looking to Xen for answers,
| base your new designs on KVM.
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http://udrepper.livejournal.com/17577.html
Kernel space: KVM virtualization layer progress
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| Linux virtualization frenzy has a new challenger: the
| simplified virtualization technology, KVM, has made it
| into the standard kernel.
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| [...]
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| Perhaps the most interesting outcome of all this, however, is how KVM is
| gaining momentum as the virtualization approach of choice - at least for
| contemporary and future hardware.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/011607-kernel.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Virtualization begins to materialize in the Linux kernel
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| Virtualization, the ability to run multiple "virtual" systems on a
| single host, is nearly as old as solid state computing. But it's been
| all the rage again in recent years, with more than a dozen large-scale
| Linux virtualization projects -- and while they require special
| custom kernels, patches, and software, the first steps toward
| OS-level virtualization have been implemented in the Linux kernel.
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http://specialreports.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/12/19/053225&tid=136&tid=91
Linux KVM Virtualization Performance
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| The benefits of KVM are high performance, stable, no modifications
| of the guest operating system are necessary, and a great deal of
| other capabilities (e.g. using the Linux scheduler). Once the Linux
| 2.6.20 kernel is officially out the door we will proceed with a
| greater number of KVM benchmarks in various environments including
| looking at the hardware virtualization performance between AMD and
| Intel.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=623&num=1
Ballmer: Microsoft Will Buy Open-Source Companies
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| "We will do some buying of companies that are built around open-source
| products," Ballmer said during an onstage interview at the Web 2.0 Summit in
| San Francisco.
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http://www.crn.com/software/202404305
Is Microsoft Hijacking Open Source?
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| What really worries me is what looks like an emerging pattern in Microsoft's
| behaviour. The EU agreement is perhaps the first fruit of this, but I predict
| it will not be the last. What is happening is that Microsoft is effectively
| being allowed to define the meaning of “open source” as it wishes, not as
| everyone else understands the term. For example, in the pledge quoted above,
| an open source project is “not commercially distributed by its
| participants” - and this is a distinction also made by Kroes and her FAQ.
|
| In this context, the recent approval of two Microsoft licences as
| officially “open source” is only going to make things worse. Although I felt
| this was the right decision – to have ad hoc rules just because it's
| Microsoft would damage the open source process - I also believe it's going to
| prove a problem. After all, it means that Microsoft can rightfully point to
| its OSI-approved licences as proof that open source and Microsoft no longer
| stand in opposition to each other. This alone is likely to perplex people who
| thought they understood what open source meant.
|
| [...]
|
| What we are seeing here are a series of major assaults on different but
| related fields – open source, open file formats and open standards. All are
| directed to one goal: the hijacking of the very concept of openness. If we
| are to stop this inner corrosion, we must point out whenever we see wilful
| misuse and lazy misunderstandings of the term, and we must strive to make the
| real state of affairs quite clear. If we don't, then core concepts like “open
| source” will be massaged, kneaded and pummelled into uselessness.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1003745
Will Microsoft Buy the New Citrix?
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| VMware, holding some 85 percent of the market, with its VI3 technologies
| offers a fully integrated stack and represents a third generation of
| virtualization technology, while Viridian and Xen-based products, including
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, XenEnterprise
| and Virtual Iron, remain second-generation products, the report stated.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2171434,00.asp
Heady Days for Virtual Systems
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| The former Microsoft Latest News about Microsoft general manager is
| now vice president of XenSource, a Palo Alto, Calif., virtualization
| company with a growing outpost in Redmond, Wash.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59088.html
What the XenSource deal says about open source
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| This is what Citrix is paying for. That and a close relationship with
| Microsoft that looks likely to get closer. “We will be building dynamic
| virtualization services and management tools on top of Viridian,” Levine
| added. “We will build the same set of products we’ve built on top of Xen for
| Viridian. We’ve already hired a team to go do that up in Redmond.”
|
| While Citrix maintained it will continue support for the Xen project, this
| deal is not about a proprietary vendor getting open source religion. It's
| about grabbing an emerging player in a rapidly expanding sector of the
| market.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/08/what_the_xensou.html
For Citrix, Target Acquired
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| You said earlier this year that Citrix is an "admirer" of Microsoft for its
| innovation, Adobe for its strong brand and Apple for its easy-to-use
| products. After watching your swift acquisition pace and the kind of
| companies you target for acquisition, I would argue Citrix is patterned more
| after Cisco Systems. Do you think that's a reasonable argument?
|
| You are thinking of the acquisition point of view instead of the comments I
| made. Those were about role models. Cisco has not been a role model for our
| acquisitions. They are a fabulous company. We love Cisco. When I talk about
| Microsoft, Adobe and Apple, they are role models for the things I cited.
|
| I happen to be a huge believer in role models. It's pragmatic: If someone
| does something really well, study it and translate that into your own
| business. I think it applies to companies and people. The way you better
| yourself is to find someone you want to be like and try to be like them. That
| impacts the way we work at Citrix.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2213318,00.asp
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