Jean-David Beyer wrote:

> Technophobe wrote:
>> PC Magazine - The Linux vendor is expected to discuss building Xen
>> virtualization capabilities into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 at a
>> company event, and it may announce a Xen technology submission for
>> inclusion in the Linux kernel.
>>
>>
> Amazing? What is Xen virtualization anyway?

Open source more or less equivalent to vmware and Virtual PC. The Xen folks
apparently never figured out how to make it work without recompiling the
guest OS, but now they're hoping that with a Ring Minus 1 being added to
the Intel and AMD processors they'll be able to use that to run a virtual
machine without recompiling the guest OS.

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