Novell follows Red Hat with Xen announcement

Virtualisation support is proving to be a big deal in the Linux world. With this in mind, we have Novell following Red Hat’s example with their own built-in virtualisation support for SuSE 10.

Novell shone the spotlight on the new version of its flagship Linux product this week, touting a significant new feature to let a server run multiple operating systems simultaneously and thereby be used more efficiently.

Novell’s SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 will include the Xen virtualisation software, said Justin Steinman, who’s in charge of data centre marketing for Novell. The move, while not a surprise, has particular importance for Novell since Xen ultimately will allow both Linux and the company’s other operating system, NetWare, to run at the same time on some computers.

Novell showed a beta version of SLES 10 at its Brainshare conference this week in Utah; the final version is scheduled to ship “mid-summer”, Steinman said. Novell’s top rival, Red Hat, is incorporating Xen into its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, due by the end of the year. Source: ZDNet

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