[CentOS-virt] XEN and RH 6
carlopmart
carlopmart at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 12:20:11 UTC 2009
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 ...
>
>> And correct, RHEL5 Xen will be supported till 2014, but did you use a technology
>> that upstream doesn't put the necessary resources to mantain and apply new features??
>>
>> RedHat virtaulziation efforts are focused at 99% on KVM solutions, for Xen only
>> applies security updates and nothing else.
>>
>
> That's not true. Upcoming RHEL 5.5 will have Xen-related bugfixes as usual.
>
> -- Pasi
>
Bugfixes and security updates only, but what about new features like XCI, RAS
fetures, etc?? Do you really think they are going to be ported by RedHat on his
xen?? I think not.
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CL Martinez
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