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Microsoft announced today that they are working with XenSource to enable support for running virtualized Windows Longhorn Server under Linux using Xen!

Microsoft Corp. and XenSource Inc. today announced they will cooperate on the development of technology to provide interoperability between Xen™-enabled Linux and the new Microsoft^® Windows^® hypervisor technology-based Windows Server^® virtualization. With the resulting technology, the next version of Windows Server, code-named “Longhorn,” will provide customers with a flexible and powerful virtualization solution across their hardware infrastructure and operating system environments for cost-saving consolidation of Windows, Linux and Xen-enabled Linux distributions.

I was rather surprised to hear this, although perhaps they realize that support for Windows VPS is far behind that of Linux, and we all know how much they’re trying to crack into the commodity webhosting market.

Press Release: Microsoft

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