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Longhorn Server Will Stress Virtualization

Posted by kdawson on from the bet-it-won't-run-virtual-MacOS dept.

Rob writes in with an article from CBROnline based on an interview with Microsoft's UK server director. He says the timing of the release of the next version of Microsoft's server OS, dubbed Longhorn, depends on the company getting virtualization ready to go. Microsoft has apparently decided to embed its hypervisor technology into Windows, an OS-centric approach to virtualization shared by XenSource Inc., its open-source rival and partner. This contrasts with the model of virtualizing the hardware layer being pursued by VMWare. The Microsoft spokesman is coy about a release date for Longhorn, saying it could be earlier or it could be later (but it should be in 2007).

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  1. Right Tool For Right Job by WED+Fan · · Score: 5, Informative

    This will work fine if all the servers you want to run on a given machine are MS. I like VMWare for the fact that you can load Windows on one VM, Linux on another, and Solaris on yet another. The folks at PACCAR are running massive numbers of systems on a single Blade.

    What I would like MS to give us is a Virtual Platform OS, much like VMWare's ESX server. Give me an extremely lightweight OS geard towards Virtualizing the HW layer, then let me load anything into each VM.

    As far as I know, VMWare is the only one doing that.

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    1. Re:Right Tool For Right Job by rfinnvik · · Score: 4, Informative

      MS supports running Linux on Virtual Server 2005 R2...

      http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtu alserver/evaluation/linuxguestsupport/default.mspx ...though I have no idea how well it works.

      The guest OS' supported are pretty much the same ones as under VMware VI3.

  2. gartner was right... by leuk_he · · Score: 3, Informative

    GArtner predicted that viriutalization would be a big factor in a next version of the next major OS.

  3. Re:Awesome! by hobo+sapiens · · Score: 2, Informative

    40% Interesting
    40% Troll
    20% Funny
    Man. Five mods so far, and only one person got the joke (thanks for the interesting mods all the same, though). I guess I'll keep my day job as a Windows Server admin after all.

    Gotta love replying to the moderators, though. It's a bit like replying to AC, only more futile.
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