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From: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>
Subject: Re: Microsoft plans 'hypervisor' for Longhorn
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 18:23:11 -0700
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M.A. Williamson wrote:
>> Article mentions Xen as Microsoft's competition.
> 
> 
> The MS hypervisor is a very interesting beast from our PoV: * drivers
> run in a dom0-like "parent" partition (cut down Longhorn) * "child"
> partitions devices are plumbed through this * VMM-aware OSes can use
> APIs called "enlightenments" (don't you usually achieve enlightenment
> through practising Zen? :-D) to avoid full-virt penalties
> 
> Their roadmap includes live migration and suspend-resume, USB
> virtualisation, etc.

I like live migration :-) . Do you have a link to this roadmap?

Jacob