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Xen Hacker Interviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the under-the-hood dept.

Drawoc Suomynona writes "The Xen virtual monitor is a new generation virtualization software that enable running multiple OSes at the same time with unprecedented level of performances. Manuel Bouyer was recently interviewed about his work porting Xen to the NetBSD operating system. The interview touches on why some consider Xen to be so good, how hard it is to integrate such a software package into an OS, and more."

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  1. Re:What about Virtualization? by ocelotbob · · Score: 2, Insightful

    True, but he was asking about using windows as the host, which will not be possible unless you shell out the money to purchase Longhorn Server. It's doubtful that MS will provide the hosting hooks into the desktop versions of Longhorn

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