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."

Comments

Gentoo??

[Anonymous Coward]

I use Gentoo; how does this affect me?

Re:Gentoo??

[palegray.net]

Now you can run Windows in a VM when people come over to avoid the shame of admitting you run Gentoo?

/me goes back to his Mac and Debian servers.

Re:Gentoo??

[Hurricane78]

Yeah, the shame of avoiding DLL- *and* dependency hell crushes me. Thank you for understanding it.
And that horribly beautiful desktop of mine*... I mean how can I live with that? I should shoot myself right now, in front of an Apple shrine.

___
* Aliasing enabled to make it harder to read the shameful things. ;)

Re:Gentoo??

[Jurily]

Now you can run Windows in a VM when people come over to avoid the shame of admitting you run Gentoo

What shame? Absolutely nothing can establish your Alpha Geek status faster than saying "Umm, I don't have a graphical desktop right now, it's still compiling", and firing up lynx to check your email.

Re:Gentoo??

[palegray.net]

Don't do it front of an Apple shrine. Better to find a Debian shrine; you'll get more mileage in the afterlife, and you won't be eternally bonded to Steve Jobs.

Re:Gentoo??

[Jurily]

Real geeks decrypt their mail by hand.

Re:Gentoo??

[locoluis]

Are you from South Korea?

Re:Gentoo??

[adam.ec]

mmmmm...... I've just spent the last two hours sorting an XP machine out with a DLL problem. On top of that most of my week has been spent updating our company machines with .net framework and it's updates because two applications that we have bought required it; and each machine would not update via our main server, only individually. In my book that constitutes dependencies and it was hell - three machines failed to update the frameworks and we had to pick out registry entries by hand to convince the machines that .net framework 3.5 wasn't actually successfully installed. I'll be honest, I use Slackware Linux which is always fun with dependencies without a package manager but I've had a lot more problems getting software to run on Windows without downloading patches, frameworks and other 'required' utilities. Also, last week, one of the department managers had a new laptop delivered and needed it for a short notice business trip. I installed Office 2007 as a complete install according to the menus. He took the laptop saying he would configure it later. Office then asked for the DVD three times while he was away to continue installing parts of applications rendering Powerpoint and Outlook useless until he came back to the office. That is the kind of dependency that really is hell.

Re:See!

[amRadioHed]

Sure, samba would be great for a universal file system if USB drives had Ethernet ports.

Re:How does this affect security?

[julesh]

"communicating through the backdoor port" == "talking out of your ass"?

Re:How does this affect security?

[QuantumG]

8 years and finally someone outside the company gets that joke.

Microsoft / Red Hat Child

[jchawk]

What do you think the demon baby these two are going to have is going to look like?