From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:28:59 -0500 From: Scott Stout To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] vmware 5.0 In-Reply-To: <20050823190717.GU27233@raqdevil.offmyserver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <599f06db05082310444813ef7f@mail.gmail.com> <884f180ed6b216fe6efd9b3178634ce6@quintile.net> <20050823190717.GU27233@raqdevil.offmyserver.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7b8d2fd0-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 "A data type extension for XML and table manipulation (formerly known as Xen and as X#):" -http://research.microsoft.com/Comega/ scott On 8/23/05, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > 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 exis= t... > > > > Sadly its worse than that, a port of WinXP was done to xen > > but licensing restrictions mean it cannot be released. > > > > -Steve >=20 > 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. >=20 > --Devon >