Just for clarification sake, Xen is now part of the Linux Foundation and XenServer itself is open source as well. Pretty much all of the bits to generate the XenServer build and all development of the Citrix product are done on Github now. I get the push to use KVM but given the amount of interest and use there was on CentOS 6 with Xen, I believe the effort will still be made to get it into CentOS 7, which is why it would be nice if it was upstream as well. From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> Sent: May 25, 2014 8:58 AM To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen DomU supoprt in RHEL 7 and the CentOS Plan On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Major Hayden <major at mhtx.net> wrote: > On May 23, 2014, at 9:13, Simon Rowe <simon.rowe at eu.citrix.com> wrote: > >> Why do you say that? My minimal testing of the rc doesn't show any >> problems installing on Xen 4.4 > > I had the same results as Simon. > > Running RHEL7rc as a domU on a machine running a Fedora-based Xen hypervisor works fine. > > However, there is no Xen *dom0* support in RHEL7rc. There are no tools either. Last time I checked, Xen support wasn't evenincluded with libvirt on RHEL7rc. :/ Given Red Hat's focus on and direct freeware support of KVM, why should they burn cycles on open source integration of a product that has a closed source upstream vendor at Citrix? They'd be much better off spending the engineering time on libvirt and getting the NetworkManager configuration tools to correctly support KVM compatible bridging or ordinary network pair bonding, jumbo frames, and VLAN tagging. None of that was working correctly on CentOS 6 or RHEL 6 without hand editing config files, which would be overwritten and scrambled by using NetworkManager to configure anything. I've not spent time with the latest NetworkManager on the RHEL 7 betas, and would be very curious to see if they've gotten *that* straightened out. In Red Hat's position, I'd contact Citrix and get *them* to do the testing and debugging, which they'll need to do for their commercial products, anyway. That might get into interesting open source licensing issues, but it's a lot cheaper than replicating testing labs and doing Citrix's work for them. _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20140525/8933a512/attachment-0006.html>