A virtualization deal struck last week between Microsoft and Red Hat shows the growing need for vendors to ensure customers can get cross-platform support for applications running in virtualized environments. Under the terms of the deal, outlined in blog posts by Microsoft Senior Open Source Community Manager Peter Galli and Microsoft Virtualization General Manager Mike Neil, both companies will validate and otter customer support for each other's operating systems on their virtualization technologies. Specifically Microsoft will offer customer support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 and 5.3 guests on all editions of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. For its part, Red Hat will support customers running Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows 2000 Server SP4 and Windows Server 2008 guests on Red Hat Enterprise virtualization technologies.
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机译：微软与Red Hat上周达成的一项虚拟化协议表明，供应商对确保客户可以获得对在虚拟化环境中运行的应用程序的跨平台支持的需求日益增长。根据交易条款，微软高级开放源代码社区经理Peter Galli和Microsoft虚拟化总经理Mike Neil在博客文章中概述了这两家公司，两家公司将在彼此的虚拟化技术上验证并提供客户对彼此操作系统的支持。具体地说，Microsoft将在所有版本的Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V和Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008上为Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2和5.3 guest虚拟机提供客户支持。就其本身而言，Red Hat将为运行Windows Server 2003 SP2和Windows 2000的客户提供支持。使用Red Hat Enterprise虚拟化技术的Server SP4和Windows Server 2008 guest虚拟机。
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