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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:07:17 -0700
From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@offmyserver.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] vmware 5.0
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:55:30PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
> > What about windows?. Qemu is flaky on windows yet and xen doesnt exist...
> 
> Sadly its worse than that, a port of WinXP was done to xen
> but licensing restrictions mean it cannot be released.
> 
> -Steve

It's a big pity since microsoft obviously has a vested interest
in Xen (google for xen site:research.microsoft.com yields
interesting results), but it's really improbable that they'd
ever release a patch for paid licenses or sell packages for it.
My guess is that they are simply interested for a VMWare ESX
competitor in VirtualPC.

--Devon