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

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Now they have two problems.