Re: VMWare -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: VMWare
From: Keith Carpenter <entropypool@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:28:20 -0800
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Walden H. Leverich wrote:

On the higher-end VMWare adds in stuff like VMotion too -- the ability
to move a _running_ virtual server between two physical servers.

A truly amazing thing, but not unique to VMware. Xen Enterprise has XenMotion. Also known as "live migration", see Features table...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines

I find it a bit amusing that given Microsoft's stance on open source, that Xen's commercial side is owned by Citrix which you may know is owned by Microsoft.

Keith

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