Just as anticipated, Microsoft is, according to Virtualization.info, going to give away Hyper-V for free. In addition, they are releasing a stripped down version which does not require the complete Windows 2008 OS. Even so, my original question still remains: do you have to buy a license for Win2008 to be able to virtualize your machines? And still, will the kernel be built with operating system functions in mind instead of virtualization? You can argue that the memory management and resource sharing algorithms are getting pretty good in mainstream operating systems, but I still believe that a specialized kernel for virtualization will be better than the general one which has to take into account a lot of different use and abuse cases.
Well, anyhow, the world of virtualization just got a little bit more exciting. As we all know, competition usually makes the available products and services better for the end users :-)
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