[CentOS-virt] Xen DomU supoprt in RHEL 7 and the CentOS Plan

Mon Jun 2 05:17:37 UTC 2014
Lars Kurth <lars.kurth at xen.org>

On 28/05/2014 16:16, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 08:29:33AM +0100, Simon Rowe wrote:
>> On 28/05/14 01:22, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
>>> XenCenter still doesn't have a proper, free equivalent that deals with guest
>>> extensions and such, as far as I know.
>> The XenCenter codebase is also on GitHub
>>
>> https://github.com/xenserver/xenadmin
> I am not sure why we are discussing Citrix's code as what would
> be going in the CentOS land is the Xen upstream (http://xenbits.xen.org/)
> hypervisor and toolstack.
>
> That is - the same RPMs and code that has been in Fedora for some time
> (do 'yum install xen' under Fedora and you will have the stock
> Xen code). That code runs with libvirt, so you can use virsh,
> libvirt (if they are compiled to use Xen libraries), virt-manager, or
> xl if you prefer.
>
> Perhaps I am missing something obvious here? Could you please
> enlighten me?
Konrad,
you are absolutely correct. The discussion on XenServer / XenCenter is 
off-topic really.
Lars