Re: [Xen-users] RHEL6 beta vs. Xen

[John Haxby <john.haxby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Speaking for myself, not on behalf of my employer:

On 09/06/10 17:21, Grant McWilliams wrote:
> Since Oracle's Linux is basically RHEL with YaST (or so I've heard) 
> then maybe the next version will be based on RHEL6 and of course (?) 
> it will include a Xen kernel.
> Then all we have to do is drop it in a repo for RHEL/CentOS. Well 
> theoretically.
No.   There is a YaST port available, but Oracle's Linux is essentially 
an RHEL rebuild -- this from 2007 is a pretty good summary: 
http://blogs.oracle.com/wim/2007/02/unbreakable_linux.html and there are 
other things on that blog about OracleVM.
OracleVM is a separate product, it's not OEL.  For a start the 
hypervisor is completely different to RHEL/OEL and the management stack 
is all Oracle's.  OracleVM is open source (of course) and you can 
download it to see what's in there and draw your own conclusions about 
what the future might be.  You can't reasonably assume that a future 
version will have an RHEL6 base though, and, from that blog entry, you 
can't assume that OEL6 will have a Xen hypervisor (unless RHEL6 acquires 
one).
jch

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