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