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XenSource said Tuesday it accomplished the feat using an Intel processor equipped with VT, or virtualization technology--a feature scheduled to begin shipping in new chips later this year. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is demonstrating the software this week at the Intel Developer Forum here. Xen, which is designed to let multiple operating systems run on the same computer, is almost always is used with Linux. But running Windows as well is useful in the real world, where both operating systems are widely used atop the powerful networked computers called servers.
Now that is a great boost to speed the proliferation of Linux. VMWare does about the same thing but it cost $150 per machine, Xen is free (isn't?). Having the two OS running at the same time would tremendously smooth the transition from Windows to Linux especially in the enterprise where many apps are still not available on Linux. I wonder what MS is going to do now to stop that?!!!
Xen is free, but I think the people who wrote it are going to sell support contracts to make money. More power to them on that idea. Now, I hope they can get Windows 2000 working as well. I won't use an operating system that needs activation and I would like to be able to run a few Windows apps that don't run in Wine.
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