Citrix, Intel To Develop New Xen Hypervisor

The IT media has reported a couple of times within the last few months that Intel sold many of its shares in VMware. Analysts said that the chip maker has probably decided to invest more in the producer of paravirtualization virtualization technology producer – Citrix.

This month Intel and Citrix announced they join forces to develop a version of Xen for personal computers and this sparked the speculations about the birth of a new “client hypervisor”.

The new Xen version is not aimed for the consumer market. Intel and Citrix are developing the technology for big enterprises with a large number of clients. The Xen producers will offer the new hypervisor along with a “centralized management system to control the hypervisor distribution, a delivery mechanism that works on bare-metal hardware, and a security wrapper around the virtual machines to enforce granular access control policies”, reports Virtualization.info.

Intel and Citrix say that they will achieve near-native performance inside the virtual machines, ability to work off-network and bandwidth-intelligent streaming.It is expected the new “client hypervisor” to be distributed through the major OEMs and will be integrated into all new Citrix products.