Re: [CentOS-virt] C7 with Xen support

On 22/07/14 10:06 AM, Volnei wrote:

Thank you Mark.

I use F20 with Xen dom0 with much success. I wanted to start using CentOS instead of Fedora but apparently will take a little longer. You can't understand why RH does these things.

Back in RHEL 5, Xen was supported. It added a lot of work for Red Hat, maintaining all the kernel patches. This was true for a lot of other programs as well.

So to reduce their work load, they thinned down a lot for RHEL 6. They dropped everything they thought was a duplication of another project or which required too much effort for too few users. With KVM, Xen was effectively a duplication of a much simpler to use hypervisor, so it was dropped.

No great conspiracy here; Just normal business decisions.