Dugie’s Pensieve

Ok, so I’m late to the party on this one.  Blame all the Egg Nog over Christmas.

Douglas Brown has come through in fine form to interview Mark Russinovich.  Now if you don’t know who Mark is, then it must be very nice on whatever tropical island you live :)

Anyway, Doug and Mark chat about Microsoft virtualization, you can check out Doug’s blog post “Virtualization Podcast with Dr. Mark Russinovich“, and a snippet is below:

• Brief Introduction of Dr. Russinovich and discussion on why he is a virtualization expert
• Security implications of virtualization
• Mark’s perspective on the virtualization world today
• Advantages and disadvantage of virtualization
• Explanation of the VHD (virtual hard drive) file format
• Citrix and Microsoft announcement that XenSource will support the VHD format
• Mark’s response to VMware’s statement that “Virtualization is the end of the OS”
• Mark’s response to the question “If you where king for a day what would you do and how reasonable would it be to achieve?”

The above podcast runs 33:40 minutes.