Dell Considers Bundling Virtualization on Mobos

castrox writes "Ars Technica is reporting that Dell may be considering bundling virtualization on some of their motherboards. No more dual boot or VMs inside the running OS? 'Any way you slice it, though, putting the hypervisor in a chunk of flash and letting it handle loading the OS is the way forward, especially for servers and probably even for enterprise desktops. Boot times, power consumption, security, and flexibility are all reasons to do this ... The big question is: which hypervisor will Dell bundle with its machines? Vance suggests hypervisors from XenSource and VMware as two options, but I think that VMware is the most likely candidate since it seems to be the x86 virtualization solution of choice for the moment. However, if Dell doesn't try too hard to lock it down, this system could easily be modified in an aftermarket fashion to include almost any hypervisor that could fit on the flash chip.'"

Comments

Top two possible misspellings:

[Roadmaster]

Dell considers bundling virtualization on mofos

or

Dell considers bundling virtualization on hobos

not pretty either way.

Re:Top two possible misspellings:

[Jeff DeMaagd]

It's stupid slang. May as well call them fabos for fatherboards.

Re:Overwhelming Support

[Kadin2048]

Was anyone with a clue actually calling Dell's call centers anyway?

The only reason I've ever called a manufacturer's tech support line in years has been to get an RMA. And it's generally just irritating when they insist on taking me through their little script before they'll admit defeat and return the piece of junk.

The purpose of those call centers is probably mostly for "cupholder calls," and less so for support on their higher end products, which is where the virtualization hardware would be (at least initially). I assume corporations have direct access to Dell to process RMAs and warranty work, request on-site service, etc., without going through a callcenter drone.