[CentOS-virt] XEN and RH 6

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:43:48PM +0100, Kris Buytaert wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 16:26 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > >
> > 
> > Both Novell and Oracle having been deeply involved in Xen lately, both
> > are developing and supporting their own products based on Xen.
> > 
> 
> 
> Given the fact that Unbreakable is a source rebuild from RHEL,  and
> Oracle is putting a lot of effort behind Xen   , they hosted the Xen
> summit before, after the aquisition of Virtual Iron where they clearly
> defined their roadmap was Xen based,  (not even including potential Xen
> based platforms they might get when the Sun acquisition eventually falls
> trough) 
> 
> 
> 
> So it looks to me that they will have to build a Dom0 based distribution
> anyhow.
> 
> The bigger question however will be if and how this work can come back
> upstream and potentially be used in CentOS ?
> 
> What's the idea on that ?
> 

Well.. CentOS is, and will be, 1:1 rebuild of RHEL.

if Oracle is going to build their own dom0 distro, then it could be the
upstream project.. 

-- Pasi