| VMware Technology Preview For Transparent Paravirtualization |
| Tuesday, 19 September 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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The transparent virtualization interface supports hypervisor diversity, allowing the same kernel to run on VMware's hypervisor, on other hypervisors, or on a native machine. This release provides support for paravirtualized guest operating systems running on VMware's hosted platform or a native machine using VMI as the paravirtualization interface. VMware continues its collaboration with the Linux community to develop a common paravirtualization interface specification that supports multiple hypervisors. With this common specification, Linux OS distributors and ISVs can support a single kernel image solution that is paravirtualized without compromising performance. Because this Preview is based on a hosted virtual machine architecture, it is not intended to demonstrate I/O performance improvement for paravirtualization. It will, however, demonstrate improved performance on CPU intensive workloads. Subsequent implementations on a bare-metal hypervisor architecture, such as the VMware ESX Server, will demonstrate improved CPU and I/O performance due to paravirtualization. Read more here.
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