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Linux team tells VMware and Xen to get their acts together

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A battle as to how Linux will handle future virtualization software from the likes of VMware and Xen has moved from a war of words to a war of indecision. The major parties involved - including Linux kernel maintainers - agree that a compromise over the virtualization interface must be reached, but no one seems to know exactly how to achieve this goal.

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Comments (3)

jsusanka ·
vmware just sat on their prices until xen showed up and made its way into the kernel.

now all the sudden they start to give away stuff - I don't know maybe I am being paranoid but I vote xen - just because of the trust factor.
jdixon ·
Actually, VMWare originally offered an fairly low cost version of their software for those wanting to run Windows under Linux. $39 from memory. I'm not sure when or why they dropped it, but I don't think it was available with Workstation 3.0.
jsusanka ·
yes they did - I was a consumer of that - still have the saved windows nt images and rpm's from it. - I believe you are right on the price $39.00 and it was called vmware express

but then they dropped it like a rock and offered upgrades to register users which I believe was 99.00 dollars - the real price was something in the 200 to 300 dollar range.

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