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CNET News: Novell Offers Faster Virtualized Windows

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Stephen Shankland
Feb 12, 2007

“Novell and Intel plan to announce Monday software that improves
the performance of Windows running atop the Xen virtualization
software.

“Xen is a an open-source ‘hypervisor’ that lets a single machine
run multiple operating systems, a feature that’s handy for
consolidating work onto a smaller number of more efficiently used
servers. However, while Linux runs relatively well on Xen, Windows’
networking performance on Xen today is, charitably speaking,
pokey…”


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