Michael Kleef has been interviewed by Damien Murdoch over at OZVMs.  Go Kleefy!! 

Check out the post “OzVMs Interview with Michael Kleef on Hypervisor and the future of Virtualisation “.  A snippet is below:

I have been fortunate enough to have had an interview with Michael Kleef from Microsoft on their Virtualisation plans, their hypervisor product and the future of virtualisation. Michael Kleef is an IT Pro Evangelist from Microsoft, and in answering our questions has shed some light on Microsoft’s future in the virtualisation space. Read on for the interview.
Where is Microsoft’s hypervisor headed and what plans are down the line for the technology ?

MK: The clear thing here is that Microsoft’s hypervisor (Windows Server Virtualisation) technology is new. It runs only on Intel VT or AMD-V (formly Pacifica) technology. It doesn’t run on top of an OS like Virtual Server does today. We haven’t openly discussed plans beyond the upcoming Windows Server Virtualisation which will be included as part of Longhorn Server.

Does Microsoft’s current product offering compete at the same level as other companies offerings ?

MK: Certainly there are areas which we compete at where we offer a higher level of value. Namely clustering which in Virtual Server is still free today. Architecturally we are very similar in many areas to others in the market.

It has been mentioned in news articles that hypervisor will be coming after longhorn, is this timeframe still accurate ?

MK: Windows Server Virtualisation will be a feature of Longhorn Server within 6 months of release of the operating system.

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