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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6182852.html

The company is changing three key features of the hypervisor technology to try to stick to its schedule of releasing the technology within 180 days of completing its Windows Server “Longhorn” operating system, due to be finalized before the end of the year. The features will be included in a future version of Viridian, formally called Windows Server Virtualization, the company said.

The first feature that is being taken out of the initial Viridian release is so-called live migration, which enables people to move a running virtual machine from one physical server to another. The initial release of Viridian also won’t support on-the-fly, or “hot,” adding of memory, storage, processors or network cards. And it will only support computers with a maximum of 16 processing cores–for example, eight dual-core chips or four quad-core chips.

Interesting, I’m waiting to see what Viridian will be like as a virtualization platform, removing some features need not be a show stopper, they can always be enabled through service packs, and at least it stops the launch date being delayed and brings new alternatives to the existing virtual platforms.

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