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Dell to embed Xen hypervisor in PowerEdge servers

Citrix Systems has wrangled Dell as the first Tier 1 server vendor to embed the Xen hypervisor in its x86 servers. The announcement comes just one day after Citrix completed its $500m purchase of the open-source virtualization firm, XenSource. Beginning next year, Dell's PowerEdge server line will have the option of shipping …

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Unless I'm missing something, it sounds more like XenServer will be pre-installed, not embedded. Having Xen in the firmware would be much more interesting.

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