Red Hat Releases Windows Virtualization Code

dan_johns writes "Only one month after Microsoft released Linux code to improve the performance of Linux guests on Windows, Red Hat has done the reverse. Red Hat has quietly released a set of drivers to improve the performance of Windows guests hosted on Linux's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. The netkvm driver is a network driver and viostor is a Storport driver to improve the performance of high-end storage. This release includes paravirtual block drivers for Windows. Linux and Windows — virtually coming together at last."

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Re:How is this new news?

[TheRaven64]

Because this is Linux. Whenever Linux gets a feature that other systems have had for ages, it's news. In terms of fanboys, Linux is the MySQL of the operating system world; features are stupid when Linux doesn't have them, and suddenly become the greatest thing ever when Linux gets them.

Or, in summary, you must be new here - did you buy that UID?