Virtualization.info Interviews Microsoft And XenSource

Saturday, 05 August 2006 by Michel Roth

Two weeks ago Microsoft and XenSource announced an agreement to grant interoperability of virtual machines on upcoming Windows Server Virtualization and XenEnterprise virtualization platforms. The move raised the attention of the whole IT world, involving licensing, supporting, security and performance issues.

Virtualization.info interviewed both companies to further understand details of the agreement and spread some lights on what customers have to expect for the Microsoft hypervisor release.

To answer questions Virtualization.info met Mike Neil, Senior Director of Virtualization Strategy, Windows Server Division, at Microsoft, and Simon Crosby, CTO at XenSource.

In this interview Virtualization.info calls a virtual machine natively running on Microsoft hypervisor, Windows Server Virtualization, as WSV-VM and a Xen virtual machine natively running on XenSource hypervisor, XenEnteprise, as XE-VM.

Read the interview here.