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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://port25.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : Media, Virtualization</title><link>http://port25.technet.com/archive/tags/Media/Virtualization/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Media, Virtualization</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 40109.1145)</generator><item><title>Xensource, Microsoft and Virtualization:  Sam Interviews Simon Crosby, Xensource CTO</title><link>http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/10/17/Xensource_2C00_-Microsoft-and-Virtualization_3A00_--Sam-Interviews-Simon-Crosby.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:16:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">af7480c4-26b7-468d-87b0-2acebabb473d:3172</guid><dc:creator>MichaelF</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://port25.technet.com/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3172</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/10/17/Xensource_2C00_-Microsoft-and-Virtualization_3A00_--Sam-Interviews-Simon-Crosby.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Today Microsoft &lt;a href="http://news.com.com/Microsoft+opens+up+access+to+virtualization+format/2100-1007_3-6126384.html?tag=nefd.top" target="_blank"&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt; the addition of it&amp;#39;s Virtual Hard Disk Format (VHD) to the list of specifications covered by the &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx"&gt;Open Specification Promise&lt;/a&gt; (OSP).&amp;nbsp; As a result individuals and organizations can use, redistribute and modify Microsoft&amp;#39;s virtualization format for free.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In light of this announcement we thought it would be a good time to catch up with a company that utilizes the VHD format:&amp;nbsp; Xensource.&amp;nbsp; In this podcast Sam and Simon Crosby, CTO of Xensource, discuss the Xensource and Microsoft partnership, Veridian, virtualization approaches, what&amp;#39;s on the horizon and more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://port25.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3172" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><enclosure url="http://port25.technet.com/videos/podcasts/xensource.mp3" length="22314341" type="audio/mpeg" /><category domain="http://port25.technet.com/archive/tags/Media/default.aspx">Media</category><category domain="http://port25.technet.com/archive/tags/Partnerships/default.aspx">Partnerships</category><category domain="http://port25.technet.com/archive/tags/Podcast/default.aspx">Podcast</category><category domain="http://port25.technet.com/archive/tags/Virtualization/default.aspx">Virtualization</category><category domain="http://port25.technet.com/archive/tags/Server+Center/default.aspx">Server Center</category></item></channel></rss>