On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:36 AM, carlopmart carlopmart@gmail.com wrote:
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:20:11PM +0100, carlopmart wrote:
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:27:57AM +0100, carlopmart wrote:
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Still it isn't official, but Citrix XenServer will disappears soon
... It will be
> integrated under Microsoft Hyper-V .... > Uhm.. I don't believe this. Where did you read that?
Citrix XenServer was opensourced last week, or the hypervisor+tools part, the xencenter management interface remains closed source (but
it
can also manage hyper-v).
> IMHO, it isn't a good option to maintain domO virt servers based on
CentOS or RHEL
> now ... It is the time to migrate to another solutions ... > RHEL5, with Xen, will be fully supported by Redhat until 2014. They
have
clearly stated that many times.
-- Pasi
Ok, I think I haven't explained well, sorry. Citrix Xenserver's
hypervisor and tools
was donated by Citrix last week, correct. But Citrix didn't release
more versions of
the product because it does not intend to develop it and apply new
features. Citrix
virtualization bussiness will be focused only on Management and
Desktop
virtualization using Hper-V as a first platform and second VMware.
Where did you read this? You write it like it's a fact - I haven't seen that anywhere.. ??
This will be announced over next weeks ...
Again, are you speculating, or is this a fact? I think Citrix XenServer
5.7
will be released soon :)
Ok, stay and wait. But I repeat: Citrix will focused his efforts only on Management and Desktop virtualization, not on servers. First past it is do it: donate xenserver to opesource community.
If this is true it will not only be the death of Xen but of Citrix as well. I don't see a company surviving that only makes a gui to manage someone else's VM solution. I think Microsoft is capable of making their own GUI.
I do think that we should probably just give up on getting xen in the kernel for Dom0. It's clear that the kernel guys will never let this happen. Xen may very well become a distribution providing a Dom0. The DomU stuff is already in the kernel so a very light distribution that only provides networking tools, security tools and the Dom0 code would be fine for those who want to continue using Xen. I've not been convinced that KVM is quite ready to do what Xen does. I use it but not for production.
Grant McWilliams
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use Windows." Now they have two problems.