“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…”