Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Aug 2007 21:36 UTC
Citrix Systems is acquiring XenSource, whose founders helped develop the open-source Xen hypervsior, for USD 500 million in a move that caps a significant week in the development of virtualization technology. The XenSource acquisition, which both companies announced Aug. 15, comes just a day after VMware, which has long been the dominant player in the x86 virtualization market, announced an initial public offering of 33 million shares of stock. By the end of its first day of trading, the company's stock closed at almost USD 51 a share.
Permalink for comment 263831
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
Member since:
2005-11-05
butters, I have to agree with you 100% on this one. Take a look at this awesome post from the gnu libc maintainer, ulrich drepper about kvm vs xen:
http://udrepper.livejournal.com/17577.html
This is bookmarking material.
KVM seems to be learning from Xen's mistakes. A good example, Xen's live-migration features connects 2 servers on a lan via an unencrypted tcp socket. Not sure about some people, but I find the idea of transferring raw memory over the wire unsettling at best seeing as how the ssh agent could have my key in it. kvm supports ssh for live migration:
http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Migration
The guys at qumranet know what they are doing.