Published at LXer:

A battle as to how Linux will handle future virtualization software from the likes of VMware and Xen has moved from a war of words to a war of indecision. The major parties involved - including Linux kernel maintainers - agree that a compromise over the virtualization interface must be reached, but no one seems to know exactly how to achieve this goal.

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I don't understand a word, but I find this highly interesting. Maybe I'm seeing this too positive, but with cpu support, virtual machines could open up a pc utopia. I have 3 harddiscs with 4 different operating systems right now, and I had some more in the past, and everyone is better at doing something, but I dislike the whole dual-booting, so I rarely restart. It just doesn't feel like home anymore.
I use vm-player and wine for exactly one program each right now, I would probably use them more if they didn't take so much resources.