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. > >>>> 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. >> > > XCI has nothing to do with using Xen on servers. And yes, big new > features most probably won't be ported to RHEL5. > > RHEL5 will be transferred to 'maintenance' mode after a while.. the > feature that are there now will be there in the future aswell. > > Btw. the earlier list of options didn't list Novell SLES11.. it has > pretty good implementation of Xen aswell (Xen 3.4.1 + 2.6.27 dom0 kernel). > > -- Pasi I have a serious doubts about Novell and Oracle will do about Xen. We need to wait ... > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com