VMware has slammed Microsoft's tie-up with open source virtualization developer XenSource, announced earlier this week, calling it a "one-way street," and accusing XenSource of betraying its open source roots.
The agreement between the two companies will allow a para-virtualized Windows to inter-operate with XenSource's Xen, and significantly add to Xen's appeal by making Windows Server virtualization able to run open-source Xen-based guest operating systems.
VMware has criticized the deal however saying that while it will optimize Microsoft code to run on the Xen hypervisor it does not allow Microsoft-XenSource developed code to be used by the open source community.
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