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The earlier 1997 paper on Disco [1] by Bugnion, … was written just before VMware was founded in 1998. It was circulated for review and reputedly made its way to
by CalChris 1y ago
The earlier 1997 paper on Disco [1] by Bugnion, … was written just before VMware was founded in 1998. It was circulated for review and reputedly made its way to Bill Gates. However, VMware was self funded; so Gates wasn't an early investor. Disco was a lot more similar to VMware's first product before Intel+AMD added VT-x to make hardware assisted virtualization easier.
[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/838/Spring2013/Papers/bugnion97disco.pdf https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/838/Spring2013/Pape...
- mackid 1y agoBill/MS acquired Connectix’s virtualization technology [1] in 2003. VirtualPC and Virtual Server went on to become Hyper-V and power Azure to this day. VPC was released in 1997 and VMW founded in 1998. [1] https://news.microsoft.com/source/2003/02/19/microsoft-acquires-connectix-virtual-machine-technology/ https://news.microsoft.com/source/2003/02/19/microsoft-acqui...
- p_ing 1y agoVPC/VS were replaced by Hyper-V. They're two very different technologies with no crossover (Type-2 replaced by Type-1, to start with).