On Dec 22, 2013, at 2:32 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote: >>> But with all that said: why are you bothering with Xen when RHEL and >>> thus CentOS have KVM support built right in? Is there some feature you >>> require that isn't available in the built-in KVM support? >> >> Some people like Xen, people like a choice, and it's not all that >> difficult to add Xen to EL7 anyways. There's no reason to exclude it >> just because upstream made a political decision. > > Sure. But don't make a choice just to make a different choice, and I' > didn't suggest excluding it. I was just asking why someone who was > unfamilar with RPM building was burning their cycles building from > scratch. I do it myself, but don't recommend it when there are tools > already availble. And you hd a *very* good point about working with > the Fedora tools! Hi Nico, Wei, the OP, is a member of the Xen core dev team, and was just providing an experience report on building Xen from source on RHEL 7 to assist anyone who was interested in packaging it for RHEL/CentOS 7. I’m replying for him because since KB forwarded the original message to the list himself, I assume that Wei isn’t subscribed. Thanks to both of you for your reports on building Xen from F19 and Rawhide! Mike