Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire

re: Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire

Dan Foxwell — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:25:30 GMT

So with my home network I have Vista 64 Ultima and Mac OSX.4.11.

What do you recomemd? My Goal is to be able to use all of my Windows programs on the Mac; at work I use a thin client with the Mac to run windows.

Dan

re: Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire

ChrisBradley — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:42:38 GMT

I think a lot of people are missing the point. Sun's MD can run 5000 virtualizations per blade from what I have heard. That means there is big potential for this sort of technology. Talk of Vista being a blunder is not necessarily true when you are looking at things from a Data Center Scale.

re: Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire

studious learner — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:29:10 GMT

I think that interoperability between vista(and xp) and linux is one of the best ideas yet. (In regards to the xp vs. vista matter that ken hess brought up, I believe that vista is by far a better OS than xp. though there are a few things that annoy me about vista(like slow startup times, useless things like user acount control, though that can be removed easily). I`ve used xp nearly my whole life, and visra is like a breath of fresh air. I`ve heard so many stories about vista bugs, that I`m starting to wonder if I happened to get one of the few ``stable`` copies of it.

Anyway, back to the interoperability issue. I believe that that this cooperation between OS supergiants Windows and Linux will have a huge impact on the computer world as a whole. If they can pull this off(and there`s no doubt that they will...eventually) than this world will be a better place.

re: Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire

Ken Hess — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:30:25 GMT

I am not sure that interoperability is needed by either camp. Ford and Chevy aren't interoperable. You can't exchange parts between them yet they both take gasoline, oil, and have seats, tires, etc. They both sell well (even though GM posted a huge loss--probably from executive salaries that are too high) and yet they are not interoperable. They don't need to be.

Linux and Windows are different and Vive la Difference!

On another front, please keep Windows XP and just improve on it...dammit, it works. Vista is almost as big of a blunder as Windows Me. http://www.savexp.com.

Microsoft has the attitude that they need to keep changing something that works. It will be a cold day in hell before I "upgrade" to Vista. It constantly hits the hard drive, it is sluggish--even on a 2GB dual core machine. Who the hell released this piece of crap?

I was offered a co-authorship on Vista with a very famous tech author but after installing this rotten POS, I declined the very nice offer.

If you want interoperability, as unneccessary as it is, first make an OS that works correctly,...like XP.

Microsoft et Novell progressent sur l'interopérabilité

Porte25: Open Source et Interop @ Microsoft — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:08:55 GMT

L'un des volets du partenariat passé entre Microsoft et Novell prévoyait la mise en place d'un laboratoire

re: Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire

communist — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:06:51 GMT

Interop - haha - good one. Your latest spin is far worse than Get the FUD. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/compare_linux.mspx "Interoperability by design" - insulting people's intelligence?

re: Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire

ChrisBradley — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:07:03 GMT

On the Metal - I haven't used MS Virtual Machine much, except at the beginning with 2004. I am impressed that you have released a 2007 version, and I intend to practice with that a bit in the coming days. The primary virtual machine program I used under vista due to Memory Constraints and other virtualization issues was called Virtual Box by Innotek. I also wrote an interview called http://pearpcfiles.blogspot.com which outlined the emergence of MAC OS X being able to run on PC's. Originally I ran it under Linux but later found that innovations enabled the emulator to run it under windows. With improvements in Processor and Memory, it looks like it will be a real possibility to cross all platform boundaries in 1 - 2 years. I hope my thoughts have been helpful. Man, would I love to have a job working with this stuff in realtime... :)

re: Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire

Sam Ramji — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:58:22 GMT

This is a positive event for Microsoft's virtualization work and our partnerships with both XenSource and Citrix. I've already been in contact with XenSource who have confirmed that this just takes a pair of existing strong technology relationships and adds Citrix's sales and marketing engine to XenSource's products. We'll continue with the joint engineering that we've been working on - establishing interoperability of Linux on Windows, promoting a common virtual hard disk format (VHD) and driving standards for management in this area.

It also demonstrates both how early the virtualization market is - there are many millions of servers still not virtualized, and that the demand for heterogenous virtualization management is very strong. Overall I see this as very positive.

Sam

re: Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire

davemc — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:34:13 GMT

Sam, How does the acquisition of Xensource by Citrix fall into Microsoft's virtualization plans? davemc

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