[CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Tue Dec 2 01:00:39 UTC 2008


Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Brett Serkez <bserkez at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Xen wont be in RHEL6 - KVM will
>> What insight can be offered on this change?  Is this a business or
>> technical or both decision?
> 
> The main issue seems to be cost of porting fixes and Xen itself to
> newer kernels. The fact that Xen did not get into mainstream kernel
> made the costs higher and higher. KVM got into mainstream kernel and
> thus has more eyes on it.
> 
> 
> 
> 

XEN will never make it into the mainstream kernel.

http://blog.codemonkey.ws/2008/05/truth-about-kvm-and-xen.html



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