Interview with Jeff Woolsey

Thursday, 12 June 2008 by Michel Roth

Scott Lowe had an interview with Jeff Woolsey, Senior Program Manager for Hyper-V at Microsoft. In the interview Jeff discussed the Hyper-V architecture, comparisons to other virtualization solutions, and some common competitive arguments for or against Hyper-V

These are the questions answered (somewhat) in this interview:

What are the key architectural advantages of Hyper-V as compared to Xen or ESX?
How would you address competitors’ complaints about how Hyper-V requires a separate LUN for each VM for which Quick Migration functionality is needed?
How much interoperability is there between Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer?
What is your response to complaints about Microsoft’s support policy for third-party virtualization solutions?
How would you respond to the concerns about the quality of the device drivers in the parent partition affecting the stability of the hypervisor?

Read the interview here.