Will Xen Be Able to Play (VMware) .VMDK files? I talked about how Xensource announced that it will be able to "import" .vhd virtual machines (a Microsoft standard). But as somebody who's made a lot of .vmdk virtual machines with VMware, I'm totally itching for VMware/ Xen to announce that Xen will be able to work with .vmdk machines, too. It'd be great to just throw a machine around to use with as many different virtualization packages as possible.

I'm really hoping an arrangement is in the works. Sure, they're competitors, but so's Microsoft, and they made the deal. VMware has pretty much said their .vmdk standard is available for anybody to use. One would think it's all on Xen, at this point.

TECHNORATI TAGS: vmdk, VMware, virtualization, sysadmin, Xen, Xensource, standards, vhd, Microsoft  ¶ 11:13 PM