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Citrix Announces Project Kensho

Monday, 21 July 2008 by Michel Roth

For quite some time I have been saying that in my perception hypervisors sill become a commodity. Now that this is starting to happen more and more, interoperability between the formats of the virtual machines of the different hypervisors becomes important. This is exactly what project Kensho is about.

The Hypervisors addressed in Project Kensho are XenServer, ESX and Hyper-V. Project Kensho is a set of tools that allow you to create your virtual machines according to OVF (the Open Virtual Format. OVF tells whichever hypervisor it is running under what hardware the virtual machine within is expecting to have available, and can be easily transferred between hypervisors as desired, giving system administrators the flexibility to run virtual apps on whichever hardware is best suited in the data centre at the time, or to move it at will. The Kensho Project tools are slated to become available in September.

Read the full press release.