On July 18th Xensource announced a partnership with Microsoft to work on “provide interoperability between Xen-enabled Linux and the new Microsoft® Windows® hypervisor technology-based Windows Server® virtualization”. The press release goes on to say “With the resulting technology, the next version of Windows Server, code-named “Longhorn,” will provide customers with a flexible and powerful virtualization solution across their hardware infrastructure and operating system environments for cost-saving consolidation of Windows, Linux and Xen-enabled Linux distributions”.

This announcement has me seriously bugged on a number of levels.

I’ve had a couple of long hot days during this heat wave we’ve been having here in California, and am pretty drained. But beleive me, you’ll be seeing a lot of posts regarding this.

You can read the Xensource announcement here:

http://www.xensource.com/news/pr071706.html

There is also an article from eweek on this.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1990366,00.asp