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Citrix XenServer Virtualization Platform Now Free

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the gateway-drugs-and-other-business-models dept.

Pedro writes "Citrix announced today that they are giving away their Xen OSS based virtualization platform XenServer with all the goodies included for free. The big highlights are XenMotion, which lets you move VMs from box to box without downtime, and multi server management. The same stuff in VMware land is $5k. They plan to sell new products for XenServer and also the same stuff on Microsoft's virtualization technology called Hyper-V. It will be interesting to see what VMware does. The announcement comes the day before VMware's big user event VMworld."

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  1. Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    but does it run Linux?

    does it support Beowulf clustering?

    If not Beowulf, does it support alternative clustering and, if so, what kind?

    can I imagine it in a beowulf cluster configuration (even if not actually supported)?

    is it affected by having hot grits dumped down its front? If so, in what way?

  2. Do you know what else is free? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do you know what else is free? ...

    Admission for one ride on my penis!

    Offer applies to women only.