[Linux-cluster] Open Source VM Solutions?

[chris barry]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 10:57 -0500, rhurst at bidmc.harvard.edu wrote:
> http://www.citrixxenserver.com/Pages/default.aspx
> 
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 15:54 +0000, gordan at bobich.net wrote: 
> > > I've just recently started thinking that I might want to check out virtual
> > > machines using GFS and fibre channel. I just found that Zen seems to have been
> > > bought out and I'm not coming across much else for well developed open source.
> > >
> > > Is there anything else that others on this list are using which might be
> > > interesting?
> > 
> > I presume you mean Xen, rather than Zen:
> > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/
> > 
> > Who is supposed to have bought it? Google didn't seem to find any obvious 
> > references.
> > 
> > Gordan

>From the article. The core is is still OSS.

"Citrix also reiterated its commitment to maintaining and growing
support for the independent Xen open source community which develops the
underlying virtualization engine used by many commercial products
throughout the industry, including those from XenSource."



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