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October 01, 2009 |
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Update: You can now download the Virtual PC and XP Mode bits from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx Microsoft announced today that Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode have reached RTM and will be available for public download on October 22, 2009 - the same day that Windows 7 hits the streets. Windows Virtual PC is the next iteration of Microsoft's client-side hypervisor solution (formerly Microsoft Virtual PC). Windows XP Mode is a pre-installed Virtual PC VM running Windows XP SP3 and can run applications seamlessly integrated into your Windows 7 desktop. Check out the details here.
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July 23, 2009 |
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The folks over at the Windows Team Blog announced today that both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM'd today. It's an important milestone for both the desktop and server world, particularly in the virtualization space, as Hyper-V will usher in a new era of competition in the hypervisor world. Both products will hit MSDN in the next several weeks (with Windows Server 2008 R2 taking a week or two longer), and the street date for both is set for October 22, 2009. Read the whole story over on the Windows Team Blog. For the latest on the new features to ship with Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (the free Hyper-V installation), check out my post over on the DailyHypervisor.com. |
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August 22, 2007 |
Here's some big news (although a few days old now)... Citrix has
announced last Wednesday that they intend to purchase XenSource, the
suppliers of the open-source Xen virtualization hypervisor for $500
million. It's an interesting play that will truely place Citrix
into the virtualization space.
The interesting thing is that this is the second time the Citrix will
have a direct competing product with Microsoft. Citrix has always
had the Terminal Server-to-Citrix value-add, but the first time they
truely competed was with the release of Tarpon (renamed Citrix Streaming Server, which was then incorporated into Presentation Server and again renamed to Citrix Application Streaming feature of Presentation Server,
or something like that). That release became the first time they
had a truely competing product with Microsoft (playing against
SoftGrid). Now, it appears they may be in that same position
again, competing not only with VMware, but also the forthcoming Windows
Server 2008 hypervisor (codenamed Viridian).
It's also interesting that they are now in a position to provide a
complete end-to-end virtualization solution. Xen would provide
the virtualization infrastructure for the hardware virtualization,
which would stream Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server, via Ardence,
running Citrix Presentation Server. Streaming Server (Tarpon)
would then provide the applications instantly to the Presentation
Servers, and all of this would be secured and accessed behind the
Citrix Access Gateway. They can now cover four of the five
virtualization spaces:
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Infrastructure/Hardware Virtualization
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Operating System Virtualization/Streaming
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Application Virtualization/Streaming
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Access Virtualization/Abstraction
The only thing missing is some sort of storage virtualization. Perhaps Citrix would be interested in buying DataCore?
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January 11, 2006 |
New changes in the licensing agreement for Windows Server 2003 R2
Enterprise Edition allow you to now run four virtual copies of the
server software for each copy you buy. This means that by
shelling out $4000 for a copy of R2 Enterprise Edition, you get to
create 4 different virtual machines out of that software.
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