On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Christopher Chan christopher.chan@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
Not getting Xen into the kernel earlier is going to be Xen's downfall.
XEN will never make into the kernel. Period. I never paid any attention to Xen but I had to lately for get Windows virtualized for new Centos desktops here at the school. What is the first thing that Centos 5 loaded?
The XEN kernel. Then the Linux guest in dom-0.
I was dismayed. Why was Linux running on top of XEN?
Now, I know why. I found this:
http://blog.codemonkey.ws/2008/05/truth-about-kvm-and-xen.html
XEN is not a Linux solution. For this reason, I am glad that Redhat bought KVM and will further develop this proper Linux solution to virtualization on Linux rather than depending on a third-party for virtualization. Good riddance XEN.
No more worries about getting XEN compatible drivers for accelerated desktops while running a Windows HVM guest.
So I will be kissing Centos 5 bye bye for the school desktops and switching to Ubuntu Hardy. When RHEL6 and therefore Centos 6 comes out, hopefully I can come back to Centos...
There are other virtualization solutions that run with/on CentOS....
mhr