On Tue, November 25, 2008 2:33 pm, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Am 25.11.2008 um 20:22 schrieb Brett Serkez: > >> 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? > > > From what I have heard of people who actually know a bit about > virtualization and kernel-design, it probably wasn't a hard decision > on the technical side. > > Business... well, Citrix owns it now, more or less. That itself > probably was enough to send it to the bin. > Everybody is running their favorite fork of it anyway. > > > >> >> >>> libvirt handles both so fundamentally it makes no difference as to >>> what the >>> virtualization technology is as the way its managed will not change >> >> I would image there has to be a conversion, for instance the format of >> the disk image, or the way that networking is setup? > > > They have some years to figure it out. > ;-) > > > > > cheers, > Rainer I was thinking about implementing Xen for our school district. Now that I'm hearing all of this I guess I need to look at something else. What does everyone recommend? Thanks Bo Lynch