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VMware, XenSource Join Forces For Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-brighter-tomorrow dept.

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."

2 of 63 comments (clear)

  1. old news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    this has already been read and discussed on Digg. by people who can actually discuss the issue intelligently. eg, know what a hypervisor is, know what issues affect virtualisation, etc

    -KFG

  2. great idea for linux never thought about before by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    rather than wasting all this time ricing out the linux kernel, how about you make the distro usable and the kernel actually worth using. until then, i am forced to use windows 98.