Novell Readies ‘Virtual Machine Driver Pack’

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SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jun 19, 2007

“Novell Inc. claims it will become the first vendor to offer a
supported solution for Xen virtual machine guests, with its release
next month of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver
Pack.

“This is a bundle of Xen-compatible paravirtualized network,
bus, and block device drivers said to enable unmodified Windows and
Linux guest operating systems to run on SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server) 10 SP1 and Xen 3.0.4 with near-native performance in
virtual environments on systems with Intel Virtualization
Technology (Intel VT) and AMD Virtualization (AMD-V)
chipsets…”

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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