Microsofts Hyper-V will come in August 2008

Microsoft this week continues its aggressive push to offer broad virtualization capabilities by issuing the release candidate of its hypervisor, Hyper-V. The server virtualization technology is on track for delivery in August 2008, the company said. The list of tested and qualified guest operating systems include Windows Server 2003 SP2, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.The release candidate also supports 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2008 Standard, Enterprise and DataCenter. The Hyper-V download is available on Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 virtualization page.