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The move follows a February agreement between Red Hat and Microsoft under which the two companies said they would validate and support each other’s virtualization and operating system platforms to expand interoperability between them.
The two corporations announced Wednesday that they have finished testing and validation of their server virtualization joint consumers and are now offering consumers joint virtual environments.
In particular, Red Hat has validated its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 with the Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor able to work with Windows Server 2003, 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual server instances.
Microsoft, for its part, has certified its Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 hosts to work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 guests.
In addition, both vendors said that all Microsoft programs qualified to run on a Windows server and Red Hat products qualified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux are also compatible with non-unusual virtual environments.
Mike Neil, general manager of Windows Server and Server Virtualization at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post on Microsoft’s website that both corporations have some programs that have qualified server virtualization technical software. For example, he wrote that consumers can run JBoss Enterprise Middleware on a guest VM in Hyper-V and get a coordinated technical matrix
It connected to a long list of Microsoft apps with the same support, which you can read about here.
The new agreement with Red Hat continues Microsoft’s burgeoning relationship with Linux and the open network that began in earnest in July when Microsoft shipped 3 Linux device drivers to the Linux network in an effort to optimize the functionality of running Linux virtual machines on Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V.
The deal is also in line with Microsoft’s cross-virtualization with Citrix. Citrix, a longtime Microsoft partner, has acquired XenSource, the developer of the open source KVM hypervisor that underpins its XenServer server virtualization technology.