On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:00:39AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Brett Serkez <bserkez at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net> wrote: > >> <snip> > >>> Xen wont be in RHEL6 - KVM will > >> What insight can be offered on this change? Is this a business or > >> technical or both decision? > > > > The main issue seems to be cost of porting fixes and Xen itself to > > newer kernels. The fact that Xen did not get into mainstream kernel > > made the costs higher and higher. KVM got into mainstream kernel and > > thus has more eyes on it. > > > > > > > > > > XEN will never make it into the mainstream kernel. > Xen _hypervisor_ will not make it into the kernel, because there's no point in that. It's not part of Xen design. Linux support for Xen hypervisor is already in Linux kernel. -- Pasi