Windows Server Virtualization BETA to be in Server 2008 RTM
Mary Jo Foley reported last week -- I can't believe I missed this -- that Microsoft now plans to include Windows Server Virtualization in the Server 2008 RTM. Now, here's the interesting part: They plan to include a BETA version of WSV in the RTM version of Server 2008.
So, arguably, you'll get WSV with Server 2008. But, you won't get any kind of a version that you'll want to use in production. Would you call that a "teaser" version?
Mary Jo continues...
This week, David Greschler, Microsoft’s Director of Integrated Virtualization Strategy, also confirmed that a beta version of Viridian — a k a Windows Server Virtualization — will be built into Windows Server 2008 when that product is released to manufacturing.
Previously, Microsoft officials had been cagey about how they planned to get the Windows Server 2008 hypervisor to customers, given that the final version of that hypervisor isn’t due to ship until six months after Windows Server 2008. Some had speculated Microsoft would make the hypervisor a download and deliver it to customers in that form.Instead, it sounds like the gameplan is to simply push out to customers the update to the Viridian beta bits that will be part of the final Windows Server 2008 release. The first iteration of Viridian, due out with Windows Server RC0, is a Community Technology Preview (CTP) build, not a full-fledged beta build.
Read her full post at:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=709
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