VMware, XenSource Join Forces For Linux

porjo writes "Peace has been established on at least one front: XenSource and VMware are working together to improve virtualization in the Linux kernel. Their original disagreement has been displaced by a commitment to work on a solution together, says Simon Crosby, CTO of XenSource, the company that builds products around Xen virtualization software. The two are trying to come up with a common approach to virtualization support in the Linux kernel. [snip] The work now under way would let hypervisors from Microsoft, VMware, and Xen work together in the same data center. Under such a scenario, it would be possible for a Xen virtual machine, trapped on a piece of failing hardware, to be automatically moved over to a VMware hypervisor on another piece of hardware."

Comments

This reminds me of Ghost in the Shell.

[supasam]

Maybe some day we'll only power down our computers after uploading them-still running-to an off site server to continue their existence. An then some day those never ending processes can mate and have children.

Re:What's virtualisation for?

[McGiraf]

"Can someone explain to ignorant old me what linux-on-linux virtualisation is for? What problem does it solve?"

It's for running linux on linux, it solves linux not running on linux.

Hape that helps.