Quoting from this article on the Novell/Microsoft deal:
Users can host Windows Server as a paravirtualized guest on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, using the Xen virtualization technology embedded in the Linux operating system.
Very interesting. The only paravirtualized Windows we’ve heard of so far is the proof of concept the Xen team did at Cambridge several years ago which was protected by NDA. I wonder what the exact licensing terms are — and what mechanism will Microsoft use to (try to) prevent people from running their domU kernel on other Xen installations?
One Response to “Windows paravirtualization on SLES 10?”
February 18th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
This was just announced a few days ago. Novell is sponsoring a virtualization pilot program for customers, providing enterprise-level support for running fully virtualized Windows 2000/2003/XP workloads on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Also based on this article http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1183704.html it sounds like they are running Windows Computer Cluster in xen in the HPC realm. An innovative approach of Microsoft enables Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 to run under the Linux OS The OS for that appears to be SUSE 9.