“VMware Inc.’s new desktop virtualization program, VMware
Workstation 6, arrived on May 9 with support for the company’s open
paravirt-ops, a virtualization performance optimizer, which as of
the 2.6.20 kernel, is now part of Linux.“According to the company, paravirtualized Linux operating
systems are modified operating systems specifically optimized to
run in a virtual environment. Unlike current paravirtualization
technologies, paravirt-ops enables transparent paravirtualization.
This allows users to run the same Linux kernel in paravirtualized
mode on a hypervisor as well as on native hardware. As a result,
organizations have to support and maintain fewer Linux kernels,
saving management costs and simplifying application
development…”