Hyper-V Server Released
Published on 1 Oct 2008 · Filed in News · 119 words (estimated 1 minutes to read)Microsoft announced the release of Hyper-V Server 2008 today via a blog post on the Server and Tools Business News Bytes blog (man, is that a mouthful!). Available “later today” as a free download, Hyper-V Server is Microsoft’s “bare metal” hypervisor-based virtualization product. Although the blog post said later today, I tried downloading it right away anyway, but the download link apparently doesn’t yet work.
<aside>I don’t know that it can really be called a “bare metal” virtualization solution since it still does require Windows Server 2008, albeit a heavily stripped-down version, in the parent partition in order to provide I/O drivers.</aside>
Hyper-V Server 2008 can be downloaded here.
Technical resources for Hyper-V Server 2008 can be found here.