Oracle 'Losing Patience' with XenSource, VMware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday August 1, 2006 @01:37AM from the just-hug-and-make-up dept.

HiTech writes "eWeek has an article looking at Oracle's frustration with both XenSource and VMware over their reluctance to work together. The goal is to develop a single interface for virtualization solutions in the Linux kernel. Oracle's comments follow those by Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman at Oscon last week that XenSource and VMware were butting heads instead of working together to come up with a joint solution. Brian Byun, VMware's vice president of products and alliances, admits the company had been approached by a neutral third party for offline mediation to establish how best to make this happen. But Simon Crosby, the CTO for XenSource, rules out any mediation, saying he believes the two companies are committed to solving the real technical issues."

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OT: Is it hard to start using virtualization? by DoofusOfDeath · 2006-08-01 02:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I know this is a little off topic, so it's fair to mod me down. But anyway...

Is it hard to setup any play with virtualization? For instance, I use Ubuntu Dapper Drake, and if it doesn't take very long I'd love to give one of the Edgy Eft snapshots a try. I just don't want to hose my existing setup. Does it take much time for a newbie like me to get virtualization working to the point where I can try something like that?