VMware's Photon Machine 'microvisor' may not be so small

The magic's in the integration between OS and hypervisor, not just a smaller virty layer

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger yesterday hinted that the company is close to revealing its complete cloud-native applications stack, but The Register's virtualisation desk today learned that the yet-to-be-revealed part - the "microvisor" dubbed "Photon Machine" - probably won't be all that micro."