Monday, July 24, 2006
The Xen of Virtualization
Looks like XEN is getting a lot of media attention these days, with the deal with Microsoft and all. Here’s another article: Climb Aboard the Xen Train.
I’m not sure what the deal with Microsoft will do to XEN, but my gut feeling is to be wary of anything touched by Microsoft. While they clearly target VMware (an enemy of my enemy is my friend, and the cancer of open source be damned), I don’t know how this will play out with XEN itself. On the other hand, it wouldn’t hurt to take XEN through more paces and the list of guests and hosts seems to be on the rise. I just wish somebody would port OpenBSD as a guest.