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xen-users
Re: [Xen-users] Xen in Linux distributions
On 07/02/2010 10:50 AM, Bart Coninckx wrote:
RedHat's trategy is clear: phase out Xen and phase in KVM. Centos will follow
obviously. Haw fast this process will take place is nothing to worry about if
you ask me. Unless you are not ready to change at any point of course.
B.
I see this a huge mistake on the part of RedHat. Only Type-1,
bare-metal virtualization, such as Xen makes sense for enterprise
deployments. Sure, if you want to provide the Linux desktop user with
some virtualization then KVM might make sense. But RedHat is losing
ground in the desktop arena already so why bother. You have major
players such as Amazon that currently use RedHat and Xen bare-metal
virtualization in their public cloud offering. You have complementary
private cloud technologies such as Eucalyptus which also support Xen so
you can mirror Amazon. And I see that trend growing. Once a distro
like RedHat can use a dom0/domU shared kernel (which hasn't been since
F8 and probably drove them to purchase Qumranet) then Xen usage for even
the casual desktop user becomes much easier. The new pv_ops kernels are
now providing just that possibility once again.
Gerry
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