“Last week’s announcement of Microsoft’s new virtualization strategy at WinHEC 2006 conference brought in big interest. The importance of the announcement and the technical complexity of the products (the so-called Windows hypervisor will be integrated in the operating system itself) also raised customers’ confusion, now trying to understand how the new products will address problems they today are solving with Virtual Server. Mike Neil, Virtual Machine Technologies Product Unit Manager at Microsoft, accepted to sit down with VirtualizationInfo and clarify some important points about Windows Server Virtualization, Virtual Machine Manager, the Softricity acquisition and more.”
I hope their hypervisor is better than Virtual Server 2005 R2 or VirtualPC 2004.
We had a MS fanboy at work today, we were going to run two instances of Win2k3 Std on VMWare ESX, but nooo, he wanted to install 2k3 on the metal and put two more 2k3’s in VS2005.
I could not believe how slow it was on a 4Gb dual Opteron 2.6 with U320 SCSI RAID 15000rpm drives!
My 1Gb 2.4/2.6/3GHz Fedora5/WinXP machines run VMWare Server Beta3 so much faster, and that’s with debugging on.
OK so the Opteron was running one more copy of Windows, but come on it should be twice as fast as my machines, not half as fast!