Microsoft’s virtualization hypervisor needs Red Hat support, too
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| With efforts such as the interoperability lab, Microsoft is reinforcing
| its promise that when its hypervisor actually ships — now slated for late
| 2008 — Novell’s SLES-based virtual machines will sing nicely on the
| Windows server platform.
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| That’s not all. On Sept 12, Microsoft and Sun also announced an expansion
| of their alliance in which the two companies will ensure that Sun’s
| Solaris VMs runs well on Windows and Windows runs well in a virtualized
| state on Solaris.
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| But what about Red Hat’s Xen-based virtual machines?
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| The competitive standoff with Red Hat notwithstanding, Microsoft must
| realize by now that unless it extends the same level of compatibility to
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux and all other Linux distributions on its
| hypervisor that this gesture at interoperability is meaningless.
|
| Microsoft’s alliance with XenSource once provided some measure of
| confidence that Red Hat would run as well on Viridian as Novell’s Linux.
| But Citrix’s planned acquisition of the open source XenSource calls that
| into question.
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| Citrix is one of Microsoft’s closest longtime allies in the proprietary
| software world and to date has not participated in the open source
| market. As Microsoft announced the planned release of the Viridian CTP
| yesterday at VMWorld, for example, it also unveiled an extended
| virtualization alliance with Citrix to standardize on Microsoft’s Virtual
| Hard Disk Format as a common run-time environment for virtualized
| operating systems and applications. That’s not surprising, given
| Microsoft’s former agreement with XenSource on VHD.
|
| But the tightening triumverate of Microsoft, Novell and Citrix — three
| longtime proprietary software companies cooperating on virtualization
| technology — makes more than a few open source advocates and customers
| uneasy.
|
| And the agreement with Sun on Wednesday — ensuring Solaris Linux runs
| well on Windows virtualization hypervisor — leaves Red Hat alone in the
| cold.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1415
SWsoft buys virtualization automation console from Ensim
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| Operating system virtualization company SWsoft announced on Tuesday that it
| has acquired Ensim's software automation business.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=2131228773&rid=-50
SUSE/VMWare gets 'optimised'...
Novell Boosts Linux Virtualization with VMware Support
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| To deliver this improved performance, Novell modified the SUSE Linux
| Enterprise kernel to support the VMware Virtual Machine Interface (VMI), a
| communication mechanism between the guest operating system and hypervisor
| that simplifies the task of virtualization and makes Linux a more efficient
| guest operating system when running in VMware environments.
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http://www.examiner.com/p-40066~Novell_Boosts_Linux_Virtualization_with_VMware_Support.html
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