8, VMware is the Linux Foundation has announced that the Foundation is a nonprofit organization that is on accelerating the development of Linux, so far, including members of Adobe, MD, Dell, Google, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel and other prominent firms in the industry is to make membership in VMware without doubt this version more stable basis.

It is interesting, but the reporter see the VMware website does not mean the news in the homepage of the Linux Foundation Web site of the first are new. Can VMware be reflected, it is a delicate state of mind, after all the elders of his public CEODianeGreene repeatedly said during the interview that was not open-source hypervisor.

On the open source community, promote cooperation
in San Francisco last September VMworld2007 conference, Greene told reporters on the VMware hypervisor will not be considered open source because it is not is what is needed.

Next, in Beijing in November VMworld conference in China, vice president of global markets and VMware said Katie kept grams, has a large number of people in the apartment VMware platform and platform work in the factory code, the supplier-related cooperation with Microsoft and Xen have by far the more cooperation, so Open Source is not the center of VMware as.

The announcement is the latest in a VMware enterprise open-source initiatives. Last year, VMware once a tool of the virtual machine, open source has been, and in 2006 opened its virtual machine interface specifications, the announcement of the open source specification for the virtual machine is what the client operating system to better communicate with the hypervisor to . make

Following the reports Linux Foundation VMware businesses in the action of the Linux Foundation, including contributions VMI (Virtual Machine Interface, Virtual Machine Interface) source code and the subsequent collaboration with the Linux kernel community, certainly to develop to carry out the source for the Linux kernel paravirtualization interface code level. In addition, VMware, after a member of the organization is called to promote Linux in High Performance Computing, Web 2.0 and SaaS in the area of rapid development.

are increasingly began on the VMware virtualization platform for their Linux environment could run, Linux Foundation, we provide a forum for the cooperation even more effectively to meet customer needs. “VMware’s products and vice president of Solutions DanChu. VMware said with a member of the Linux Foundation, the entire Linux community will be able to better cooperation and may further contribute to the Linux community.”

The end user virtualization, how to encourage the client Linux operating system performance. According to some industry observers point of view, the user is happy to see the cooperation to be different virtualization vendors and open attitude.

with competitive management products
The United States’ Global Network, the author had some experts have server virtualization in the field of competition more weight to value-based management tools to detect rather than the hypervisor itself

VMware company realized that many functions hypervisor is already homogeneous, or the difference is not great, many functions and was even able hardware, then, like other vendors, VMware management began to focus on virtualization, and where to look for a technological breakthrough and growth gains.

course in spite of the face, such as Microsoft, Citrix number of companies, including competitive pressure, and now VMware is still the biggest server virtualization vendors. To counter this competition, VMware, the end of July when the company announced that its virtualization product will be free ESXi Embassy VMware virtualization is to ensure the direction of gravity can be integrated.

However, Microsoft and Citrix are now actively promoting products from other virtualization management of heterogeneous servers such as Citrix and XenCenter next version of Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager2008 SystemCenterReporting are committed Xen and Hyper-V VMware support for the management, but VMware is still very active in promoting this issue. This thing is actually quite well, since Microsoft is not actively involved in supporting the same office on the WPS.

do not expect that VMware will open its hypervisor or wait for the open source community to help them innovate, after all the foundation with the open source Linux on raw materials, with considerable distance.

In any case, join the Linux Foundation VMware, this means that open source VMware on the recognition of other, perhaps this means that changes in the server virtualization market will take place in the direction .
San Francisco virtual office