It Works On My Virtual Machine - So Ship My VHD!

With advances in virtualization technology, it seems like the old quip, “It works on my machine - so let’s ship my machine!” is becoming reality.

In the old days, people would configure a physical box in their shop and send it out to the client or host to plug and play. With virtualization, you could configure a virtual machine – even a development machine – and upload the virtual hard drive to a data center.

Taking it further, the folks running Azure could run multiple copies of the identical VHD when it's time to scale out. Maybe this is something they’ll announce at PDC 2009?