The modifications are designed to improve the performance of Linux when running on VMware virtual machines and see the SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel modified to support VMware’s Virtual Machine Interface.
Novell also noted that the VMI modifications been accepted by the upstream Linux development community, alongside the paravirt-ops open interface standard, and both will be included in future versions of the Linux kernel and Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
The company further noted that the VMI enhancements are available now to members of the company’s beta testing program.
Earlier this week VMware announced that it had released a subsection of its VMware Tools components as an open source project in order to improve interoperability with Linux distributions.
The company said it is already working with Red Hat, Novell, and Ubuntu to integrate the Open Virtual Machine Tools with their respective Linux distributions.
