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Microsoft speakers at a conference in Olympia Washington last week portrayed how Microsoft is responding and it is good.
The hypervisor Microsoft got with a purchase and is available free for download gives each virtual machine its own CPU when there are multiple CPUs on a server. This has now been changed.
When Widows 2008 is released a new hypervisor that load balances between virtual machines will be provided. It is one of the children from the Novell Microsoft marriage. The only draw back is that you have to have all 64 bit CPUs in your multi processor multicore server. The work around, I confirmed, will be XEN.
The main point is that Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn) will not load on top of the hardware. It will load as a virtual operating system product on top of a hypervisor that takes advantage of the AMD or Intel provided virtual capabilities that come as firmware or through open source contributions. The security improvements of this model should be obvious to all readers by now.
A secondary point or conclusion is that Windows 2008 is a re branding of Mictosoft (SUSE) Linux. Widows 2008 is getting its multicore capabilities via technology normally associated with SUSE Linux. You come to that conclusion after finding SUSE Linux intertwined in Windows 2008 Server. For example, the same administrative console is used to control virtual SUSE Linux and virtual Windows 2008.
The conference attendees got confirmation that Windows Server 2008 will use the same "new" core as Vista which will be rolled out as a service pack.
Bottom line - It took a sledge hammer to the nogan but Microsoft management is turning the Microsoft battleship towards less rough seas. - Posted by: mighetto Posted on: 05/28/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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