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Microsoft Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold
whitehartstag writes to mention that Microsoft has announced their new Hyper-V as feature-complete. Unfortunately the list of supported systems is disappointingly short. "No offense to SUSE Enterprise Server crowd, but only providing SUSE support in Hyper-V is a huge mistake. By not supporting Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, and BSD, Microsoft is telling us Hyper-V is a Microsoft only technology. More Mt. Redmond, Microsoft center of the universe thinking. That's disappointing. Sure, if you are a Microsoft only shop, Hyper-V will be an option for virtualization. But so will VMware and XenServer. But if you run a mixed shop, Hyper-V won't solve your problems alone — you'll have to also add VMware or Xen to your virtualized data center portfolio. Or just go with VMware and Xen and forego Hyper-V."
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I'm just curious, but isn't virtualization basically the interpretation of assembly instruction from one architecture to another, so that it can be run in near-native or native formats (meaning little to no translation) to the CPU of the physical hardware? If this is the case, then they know more about virtualization than anybody, seeing as how they develop languages that can compile bytecode, and work with SuSE on Mono and Moonlight. In this light, it's not what they do or do not know about virtualization (As evidenced by the fact they are very proficient in raw assembly instruction, RE: CIL) but rather their deficiency in marketing, advertising and Public Relations that is coming into focus here.