Xen getting multiprocessor support

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No support for XP

After reading over the company's website, I found the following sentence very interesting:

A port of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of Xen, but is not available for release due to licence restrictions.

This appears to be saying that they are unable to provide a version that will run Windows XP within the Xen environment. I wonder how the recent EU proposals on MS licensing behavior will affect this. Until Xen can provide full support for MS operating systems, it'll fall short of the capabilities of it's competitors. I think an open source alternative to VMWare or MS Virtual PC is a great idea though...

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