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Xen and the Art of Virtualization

Microsoft joins industry heavyweights in backing project

By Alex Handy

August 15, 2006 — (Page 1 of 2)
The Xen virtualization platform is fast gaining industry support, thanks to the contributions of companies such as HP, IBM, Novell, Sun and even Microsoft. During the month of July, IBM and HP both announced the introduction of support offerings for Xen running under SUSE, and Microsoft announced that it would begin working with Xen Source, the enterprise software company based on Xen, to foster better compatibility for the virtualization platform.

At the core of the HP and IBM announcements was the release of SUSE Linux 10. Novell’s latest iteration of its Linux-based operating system now includes Xen as a standard part of both server and desktop installations. Since both HP and IBM are offering service and support contracts for their systems that run SUSE, both companies are also offering support for Xen. Interestingly, Microsoft will also be offering support for the tool when it releases Windows Server Longhorn.

But that doesn’t mean that all the companies are seeing eye-to-eye.

IBM, unlike Novell, views Xen as only one piece of a larger virtualization puzzle. Kevin Leahy, director of virtualization strategies at IBM, said that his company sees its role as providing overall management tools that can take care of multiple virtualization environments at once.

Sun, on the other hand, has been working with the Xen team to build up support for running Solaris under the virtualization platform, and HP has been contributing its minds to improving the platform.

Meanwhile, Microsoft announced that it plans to allow Xen to interoperate with its own hypervisor.

Jim Ni, group product manager of the Windows Server division at Microsoft, said that Longhorn will include a number of features that make virtualization a fundamental part of the operating system. “We’re putting something we call Enlightenment in the core operating system, which allows the OS to understand it’s virtualized. So Linux will run on top of Windows Server Longhorn.”

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