Parallels: Bare-metal hypervisor in the works
Parallels, one of many peddlers of desktop and server virtualization products, says that it is still hard at work on a bare-metal hypervisor for the carving up of servers. While host-based desktop and server virtualization is acceptable for many workloads, in some cases - particularly mission-critical applications where security …
Danger, Will Robinson^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HSteve Jobs.
"........and on Apple iron run Mac OS X as well."
With the virtualisation capable of presenting an acceptable environment for MacOS to do its stuff in, it can't be long* before some heroic hacker "tweaks" it to provide this functionality on any PC compatible. That'll go down like a cup of warm sick at the Cupertino fruit farm.
*My money's on within a week of the first beta shipping.
We're an SMB software company and use Virtuozzo Containers, and we think it's the d.b.'s!!!
All these companies are missing out on one set of users, the home users. A quad core chip can be easily divided into at least 2 VMs. While there are a bunch of free Type 2 hypervisors, the bare metal hypervisors costs a huge amount of money or support only very high end hardware.
I seem to recall VMware has one in the works, but I could be wrong. My wife says so......often......
Sun xVM Server will be exactly what you are after - once they reach a binary release point.
http://xvmserver.org/download.html
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