Found in this month's Novell newsletter:

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Novell Joins Microsoft Server Virtualisation Validation Program

Now you can confidently run Windows Server 2008 as a virtualised guest on top of the Xen hypervisor in SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 and receive co-operative support from either company. As part of its extensive interoperability agreement with Microsoft, Novell holds a unique position as SUSE Linux Enterprise is currently the only Xen hypervisor on which Microsoft will provide full support today for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 running as a virtual guest. Read full press release now.

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Put in Novell's own words, having struck an exclusionary deal with Microsoft, "Novell holds a unique position as SUSE Linux Enterprise is currently the only Xen hypervisor on which Microsoft will provide full support today for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 running as a virtual guest."

Remember that this Validation Program involves licensing/software patents, so it's not open to others. Increasingly, as Hyper-V shows, Microsoft considers SLES as though it's a version of Windows. Whose franchise is it anyway? ⬆