The network is not a long-term as a complex technology that is maintained by experienced engineers, expensive hardware and mysterious MAC and IP addresses. Now that a 12-year-old child turns on a consumer router, connecting to a netbook, and doing anything on the Internet to do a 12-year-old child has become a common trend.
virtualization will soon become a mainstream trend that everyone is well-known, 12-year-olds can also create and delete virtual machines on their netbooks. The addition of Microsoft has also contributed to the popularity of virtualization. Yesterday, Microsoft's Hyper-V program manager Matt John announced the fact that many people have already guessed that the next-generation version of Microsoft's desktop operating system will focus on virtualization.
said John " in the process of building Windows 8, we focus on virtual machine technology as part of the two versions before Windows Server Hyper-V composition also applied to the client Caozuoxitong in to " .
can now be sure that this is not the first time virtualization possible on Windows systems - for example the high-end version of Windows 7 will include Windows Virtual PC and XP Mode, which is also run Windows in Window 7 XP virtual machine. Microsoft also has other virtualization technologies, such as MED-V. Not to mention VMware's VMware workstations, Oracle's VirtualBox and other products, similar products are compatible with the Windows operating system.
but fresh is that this is the first mainstream Windows desktop users really have virtualization software, you can use their fingertips can create and configure virtual machines, loading Caozuojitong and hypervisor as their Part of the Windows operating system to boot and boot. This has become mainstream and can no longer be mainstream.
according to John to say, the built-in Windows 8 Caozuojitong the Hyper-V hypervisor version will be very mature and reliable. A virtual machine that can run a 64-bit operating system in a virtual machine and supports a powerful 32 processors and 512GB of random access memory. It can also allow the desktop to go into sleep mode (automatically suspend any running virtual machines), including dynamic memory allocation -- similar to the features in the Hyper-V hypervisor version built into Windows Server 2008 R2, available through Windows Upgrades are upgraded, snapshots and real-time storage migration features similar to VMware's Storage vMotion. John said "With these features, you can migrate virtual machine storage from a local hard drive to another local hard drive, a USB storage or a remote file share, and you can do it without stopping the virtual machine running. ; The virtual machine can also provide a wireless network interface card to talk to the outside world. The virtual bridge can be used to perform MAC translation between the virtual network interface cards of each virtual machine and the physical unlimited network interface card of the desktop system.
there are some limitations: If you want to run more than five or five virtual machines must be configured to select 64-bit version of Windows Caozuoxitong 4GB or more of RAM. This is a fact that you may not want to face and must face. Features such as BitLocker that rely on dedicated hardware or games that require processing with a graphics processor will not function properly. High-precision applications that are sensitive to delays, such as real-time music mixing applications that rely on sub-timers, may also have problems running in virtual machines.
Once the Hyper-V hypervisor is installed successfully, root Caozuoxitong - such as Windows 8-- will run on top of Hyper-V virtualization layer. In order to continue to use all the underlying hardware directly, BitLocker applications that are not working properly under the virtual machine will work properly and require some special handling, but John said "the fact that the root operating system is running on top of the Hyper-V hypervisor There will be some negative results, and there is still a problem with delay-sensitive high-precision applications running on the root operating system. John warned that this is the virtualization problem you have to face.
there are many we do not know. Can you input and convert to a VMware virtual machine? What kind of client operating system can I support? Can I only support Microsoft operating systems or can I run Linux and other operating systems in Windows 8? (In the server version of the Hyper-V hypervisor, you can run the CentOS operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and various Microsoft operating systems), enterprise users can get from Microsoft System Center Virtual Does Machine Manager manage virtual machines running on Windows 8? These issues will gradually become clear in the coming months.
when you consider that these time, which for Microsoft is already a significant progress. After all, strong virtualization competitors like VMware are also deeply infiltrating into the desktop system. So why not stick to the advantages of Hyper-V virtualization technology under the nose of every desktop computer user? By popularizing the Hyper-V hypervisor as a mainstream technology that everyone can try and get used to, it means that Microsoft can make huge gains from the small and medium-sized business. Imagine the potential for virtual application tools when everyone installs the Hyper-V hypervisor on their desktop.
in the enterprise virtualization space is no big difference, but Hyper-V hypervisor has not attracted much attention in the enterprise market.