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Microsoft Releases Virtual Machine Additions for Linux

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th Oct 2007 20:08 UTC, submitted by twickline

Microsoft has released its Virtual Machine Additions for Linux. "Virtual Machine Additions for Linux are designed to improve the usability and interoperability of running qualified Linux operating systems as guests or virtual machines of Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1." Red Hat and SUSE are the obvious supported guests.

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Question

by mkools on Wed 24th Oct 2007 20:28 UTC

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2005-10-11

Why is Red Hat _obvious_ supported?

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RE: Question

by IanSVT on Wed 24th Oct 2007 20:34 in reply to "Question"

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2005-07-06

My guess is they hold the market share lead in virtual machine hosts in the linux sector, so you'd be cutting out a large market segment otherwise.

Edited 2007-10-24 20:34

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RE: Question

by hussam on Wed 24th Oct 2007 20:44 in reply to "Question"

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2006-08-17

Redhat and SUSE Enterprise servers are very widely used in the server market and therefore it is an obvious reason to support them in "Virtual Server 2005". A lot of Linux servers out there are running these two products.

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RE: Question

by backdoc on Wed 24th Oct 2007 21:26 in reply to "Question"

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2006-01-14

I was wondering the same thing. Isn't Microsoft still making innuendos that Red Hat violates their patents and their users are at risk? In that case, it seems odd to me that MS would support them. It's like MS is validating RH by supporting their product.

Edited 2007-10-24 21:27

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RE[2]: Question

by jayson.knight on Wed 24th Oct 2007 22:48 in reply to "RE: Question"

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2005-07-06

"In that case, it seems odd to me that MS would support them. It's like MS is validating RH by supporting their product."

Business is business. As a corporation, you simply cannot afford to hold "personal" grudges against companies, especially for things that remain unproven. Plus if it means a Windows license sale, MS will support whatever makes them money. It's not rocket science.

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