RSSMicrosoft Adds AMD to Virtual Server
By Nate Mook | Published August 31, 2006, 4:15 PM
Microsoft's Virtual Server product is getting support for AMD's virtualization technology with an upcoming service pack, the company announced Thursday. Beta 2 of Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 introduces the feature, which means improved performance for virtual machines running on AMD systems.
"Virtualization is a major global trend that enables businesses to be more agile. AMD and Microsoft are collaborating to make virtualization a strong part of the computing fabric," said AMD vice president Terri Hall. Microsoft previously only supported Intel-specific virtualization technology. Other new features in Beta 2 include a Volume Shadow Service for making backups and the ability to edit files in a virtual hard disk without starting the virtual machine.
Looks like Microsoft is trying to rally up some friends, because as of late Intel hasn't been much of a friend to them.
Oh well, I still like my Opterons, and going to stick with them regardless.
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I agree, Microsoft has a lot more enemies than friends at the moment.
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Yeah, it's sad to say really.
But it's so much the fact that they have a lot of enemies at the moment. It's that they have decided to join up, and put up a much better front againts MicroSoft. Strength in numbers.
Combination of Intel, Apple, Google and Disney is a formidable force. Children will start watching their favourite Disney films, and see the heros working on Macs. Never under-estimate the power of advertisment and product placement.
Oh well, it will really interesting to see where this all leads. =)
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Virtualization is an understimated Market. Most of the biggest Corporations implement this technology very intensive in Intranet Solutions and IBM is the leading Hardware Production Company which have the advanced hardware technology for supporting Virtual Technology. If Microsoft decided to increase Virtual Software developments this is good for
more Competition and Virtual Technology Expansion and Development. Of course AMD is sure happy to collaborate with Microsoft in this Field.
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While this is great to see hardware virtualization has not been the holy grail of virtualization performance as it was originally sold to be. While it makes development of virtualization products easier (which is still a very important thing) the performance gains are little to none, at least in real world setups and not Intel or AMD's labs.
Still it is nice to see both AMD and Intel supported :)
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Talk about biased articles. Not even a mention of Intel Virtualization Technology, which is also supported in the same release!!!
Typical poor reporting by BetaNews
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Read before opening mouth:
"Microsoft previously only supported Intel-specific virtualization technology."
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...and that byline is just aobut all it deserves.
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