Microsoft Teams with Xen, Makes Virtual Server Free, Adds Support for Linux

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Microsoft Teams with Xen, Makes Virtual Server Free, Adds Support for Linux

04-04-2006, 08:24 AM,

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Microsoft Teams with Xen, Makes Virtual Server Free, Adds Support for Linux

Quote:Microsoft today lobbed three massive bombs into the server virtualization market. First off, it will now support - wait for it - Linux, when the OS is running on top of its Virtual Server product. Secondly, Microsoft has made Virtual Server free. And, in a move few thought possible, Microsoft has teamed with the developers of the open source Xen product to gang up on server slicing leader VMware...

Microsoft will offer 24-hour support to customers running enterprise and standard versions of Red Hat and Novell Linux in conjunction with Virtual Server 2005 R2. Beyond that, Microsoft plans to distribute "virtual machine add-ins" that make Linux guest operating systems work better with its product. The add-ins will help out with mouse and display driver functions, SCSI disk emulation and guest and host synchronization...

full article: http://www.theregister.com/2006/04/03/ms_virtual_free/

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