"Microsoft Wants To Create A Complete Virtualization Stack With Linux"

[wswartzendruber]

Yes.
However I do not find this conversation constructive. Maybe all these post about USA and Japan (including this post, I do not consider myself immune) should be deleted as off topic.

Is Microsoft, with its current leadership, the enemy of open source?

[zxy_thf]

Why would they not just use/extend KVM?

Because Not Invented Here?

[elatllat]

Will the kernel even merge a stub/wrapper/condom like mshv? I forget where the line is drawn.

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

He didnt finish the line...

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

Japan? The least productive country in the world?

No, we are talking about the how micrsoft keeps Linux closer like a "friend" with WSL2 and now this.

[doublez13]

Will the kernel even merge a stub/wrapper/condom like mshv? I forget where the line is drawn.

Yup I'm guessing it probably won't go over well... the patchset that is.

[tildearrow]

Because Not Invented Here?

Because EEE.

[Xaero_Vincent]

I'm confused by what this means.

Does this mean that Hyper-V will now support bare-metal booted Linux hosts and we can use Hyper-V instead of KVM, VMware or Xen? Or will it still require Window Server as the host?

[jacob]

Is Microsoft, with its current leadership, the enemy of open source?

IMHO definitely not. Times have changed. Microsoft is actively involved in many open source projects (including the Linux kernel itself) and they also do things that are entirely contrary to the FOSS philosophy. Just like, you know, pretty much every major company around. In fact I would say they are now one of the better ones.

[wswartzendruber]

IMHO definitely not. Times have changed. Microsoft is actively involved in many open source projects (including the Linux kernel itself) and they also do things that are entirely contrary to the FOSS philosophy. Just like, you know, pretty much every major company around. In fact I would say they are now one of the better ones.

And neither is Japan an enemy of the United States. In fact, they are a partner in the F-35 program. That is how much we trust them, and how much they've changed. An entity must be permitted to change its behavior.

[jacob]

And neither is Japan an enemy of the United States. In fact, they are a partner in the F-35 program. That is how much we trust them, and how much they've changed. An entity must be permitted to change its behavior.

I may have missed something but what's with this discussion about Japan? Japan WAS an enemy of the US SOME 80 F'ING YEARS AGO. Today they are among each other's most important strategic partners. Just like Germany is not the enemy of France.

By that logic the US's southern states are an enemy of the northern states.