MS contributing to Linux

[Derek Broughton]

Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:

> 
>>>> And I have the same thing as Derek: the only thing that's ever crashed
>>>> my Ubuntu host is XP in VirtualBox. (It crashed it pretty hard, too,
>>>> needed more than a restart.)
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> I take it neither you nor Derek were using KVM? You running Windows with
>>> a Xen vm with paravirtualized drivers?
>>>     
>>
>> As we both said - XP guest in a Linux VirtualBox host.
>>   
> 
> Rats, I have been using OpenSolaris for over a year but I never noticed
> Virtualbox. Guess I need to dig up a bit more on this. I take it that it
> is paravirtualization for the most part seeing that it added VMX/VT-X
> support?

I _believe_ so, but I know exactly as much about VirtualBox as I need to :-)
-- 
derek