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1. CalChris ◴[15 Jul 25 13:12 UTC] No.44570774[source]▶

The earlier 1997 paper on Disco [1] by Bugnion, … was written just before VMware was founded in 1998. It was circulated for review and reputedly made its way to Bill Gates. However, VMware was self funded; so Gates wasn't an early investor. Disco was a lot more similar to VMware's first product before Intel+AMD added VT-x to make hardware assisted virtualization easier.

[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/838/Spring2013/Pape...

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2. mackid ◴[15 Jul 25 13:46 UTC] No.44571128[source]▶

>>44570774 (TP) #

Bill/MS acquired Connectix’s virtualization technology [1] in 2003. VirtualPC and Virtual Server went on to become Hyper-V and power Azure to this day. VPC was released in 1997 and VMW founded in 1998.

[1] https://news.microsoft.com/source/2003/02/19/microsoft-acqui...

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3. p_ing ◴[16 Jul 25 03:42 UTC] No.44578473[source]▶

>>44571128 #

VPC/VS were replaced by Hyper-V. They're two very different technologies with no crossover (Type-2 replaced by Type-1, to start with).

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VMware Workstation: Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture (2012) [pdf]