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VMware hits out at XenSource "sell out"

Microsoft deal is a betrayal
By Nick Farrell
Thu Jul 20 2006, 08:40
VMWARE HAS SLAMMED its open sauce rival XenSource for joining up with Microsoft to allow its virtualisation software to work with Windows.

VMware's Brian Byun, the company's VP of products and alliances, describes the deal as a, "one-way street that favours Microsoft and Windows running Linux".

He said that while the deal will allow Microsoft code to run on the Xen hypervisor it did not allow Microsoft-XenSource developed code to be used by the open source community.

It will mean that Linux can run on a Microsoft hypervisor but only when the VoleWare is controlling the operation.

Byun said that there was no mention of Longhorn being ported to Xen or licensed to XenSource to enable a Xen hypervisor to run full optimisations with Longhorn OS. He said that XenSource had abandoned its open source roots, with the result that its code would become proprietary.

Writing in his bog, Byun said that to protect Windows from GPL contamination, XenSource will need to undertake a lot of non-GPL development to translate and buffer the Linux kernel from Windows hypervisor interfaces. µ

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