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Red Hat Releases Windows Virtualization Code

Posted by samzenpus on from the show-me-yours-and-I'll-show-you-mine dept.

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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  1. Re:Gentoo?? by palegray.net · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  2. Re:Gentoo?? by Jurily · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:Gentoo?? by Jurily · · Score: 3, Funny

    Real geeks decrypt their mail by hand.

  4. Re:How does this affect security? by QuantumG · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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