Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative

Posted Sep 28, 2017 19:27 UTC (Thu) by evad (guest, #60553)
In reply to: Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative by Cyberax
Parent article: Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative

And yes, it is incorrect to say that Microsoft optimised Windows for KVM/XEN. All they did was provide information for the KVM/XEN developers to work better with Windows.

Perhaps you should not tell others off for spreading FUD when you are in fact... spreading FUD.

Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative

Posted Sep 28, 2017 19:59 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Xen has nothing internally to do with emulating "Hyper-V protocol" or anything like it. Ditto for KVM.

The current PV drivers for Windows are developed by Citrix and they use the same protocol as Linux drivers. Not surprising, since they are talking to the same backend.

Windows did some work quietly to make sure that it's not hitting performance bottlenecks in Xen and KVM.