Grazed from The Register. Author: Cade Metz.
A month after open-sourcing what it calls "the first major hypervisor" to arrive in half a decade, cloud computing pioneer Joyent has added this hypervisor to its flagship service, allowing Linux and Windows applications onto the Joyent Cloud for the first time.
The Joyent Cloud – an "infrastructure cloud" along the lines of Amazon’s EC2 – is built atop a Solaris-based operating system known as SmartOS, and as originally conceived, the OS did not include hardware virtualization. This meant the Joyent Cloud could not run applications built for Windows or Linux or any other outside operating systems…