Comments on: Hypervisor Footprint Quiz

By: EBE

EBE — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:42:37 +0000

ok, you hate hyper-v, we start to understand..

well.. you, and many, many people will hate it more and more..
How happy am I to use both, enjoying them both.. the only way to have somewhat a good idea about them..

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:57:27 +0000

The best way to think of the Azure hypervisor is that it is a fork of Hyper-V optimized for a particular use case.

It’s almost like a general-purpose OS is not the most effective foundation for a hypervisor/cloud infrastructure…

By: PiroNet

PiroNet — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:21:13 +0000

Talking about footprint, what about Microsoft’s hidden project called ‘WinMin’ !? 25Mb on disk 40MB on RAM. But maybe its all about rumours… More at http://deinoscloud.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/winmin-a-multi-layer-os-ala-linux/

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:41:27 +0000

LOL, that’s the MS approach.

Footprint does not matter until Hyper has a small footprint;
VMotion is not needed until Hyper-V v2.0 introduces Live Migration;
Storage migration is not needed until ………..
FT is not needed until …….

So with Hyper-V footprint does not matter but with Azure it becomes the most important feature. The ‘quick’ story continues

By: NiTRo

NiTRo — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:50:02 +0000

Eric, don’t you think that clearly means azure won’t be built over Hyper-V as the rumor says ?

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By: Shawn E

Shawn E — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:42:35 +0000

Isn’t it ironic that the best design principles for a cloud worthy hypervisor is to strip out as much of the ‘Windows’ code as possible?

By: Fernando

Fernando — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:03:49 +0000

The very same approach MS itself took with the “Server core” option.
If what matter is what it running in memory, why the hell MS created this Server Core option for windows server 2008 ????