posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:59 AM
by
paul
Virtualization
Went to an early morning talk today at WinHEC on Virtualization in Windows, it woke me up anyway. This is incredible stuff! Install, configure or delete an OS from another partition the future is in Longhorn!
Hypercalls to a virtualization Stack, an OS aware that it is running on a VM, Windows Enlightenment!
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
Microsoft will build virtualization capabilities into the Windows platform based on Windows hypervisor technology, planned for availability in the next product wave of the Windows operating system, code-named Windows "Longhorn." This integrated hypervisor technology in the Windows operating system will be designed to provide customers with a high-performance virtualization solution for Windows and heterogeneous environments.
Microsoft Windows hypervisor technology will support enhanced hardware technologies, such as Intel Virtualization Technology and AMD's Pacifica specification. The combination of these software and hardware technologies will open the door to widespread use of computer virtualization in the future.
Increased investments in Microsoft's System Center family of products will result in management products that are optimized to take advantage of the unique capabilities that virtualization brings to the Windows platform.
Intel Virtulization Technology
AMD Server Virtualization Powered by AMD Opteron Processors