Usually when someone mentions the word agnosticism, they are talking religion. It isn’t always a good idea to talk about politics or religion, so we are going to talk about hypervisor agnosticism. Hypervisor agnosticism is the idea that the customer does not care about which hypervisor they use in an environment since the hypervisor is becoming more of a commodity. There is even talk about hypervisors being built into the BIOS. Citrix is trying to re-focus on making virtual applications run more efficiently on the microkernel-based hypervisor as well as making “virtual workloads” portable. This is where Project Kensho comes in. Citrix states that “…Project Kensho will enable ISVs and enterprise IT staff to leverage a hypervisor-independent portable virtual machine format that packages a complete application workload as a secure, portable, pre-configured open standard virtual appliance. This will solve a multitude of interoperability issues between virtualization platforms while allowing automated provisioning and management of applications, rather than just virtual machines… These tools will allow application workloads to be imported and run across Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and VMware ESX virtual environments. ” Unfortunately there are no public betas out yet, but it will be cool to see as this project materializes.

Check out CIO’s write up on this technology to get some more information.

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