[Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] News - Microsoft Submits Drivers for Paravirtualization

[Thomas DuBuisson <thomas.dubuisson@xxxxxxxxx>]

No, this seems to be a step in positioning Hyper-V to be the market
leading hypervisor by making Linux run as a guest on Hyper-V.  I don't
see this as any sort of good news from a Xen standpoint.  Perhaps I
missed something that made you think otherwise?

Thomas

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Nathan
Eisenberg<nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don’t normally news-post, cross-post, or even post to devel at all, but I
> thought this was quite interesting.
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> Apparently, Microsoft submitted 20,000 lines of device driver code for
> inclusion in the staging kernel.  Perhaps this is a step towards
> paravirtualized Windows guests in Xen?  That would be quite compelling.
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> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072009-microsoft-linux-source-code.html
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> Best Regards
>
> Nathan Eisenberg
>
> Sr. Systems Administrator
>
> Atlas Networks, LLC
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