On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 09:51 -0400, Digimer wrote: > Red Hat is a business, and made a simple business decision. Maintaining > Xen support would have meant maintaining a very large set of patches. > They made the decision that the effort (and money) needed to maintain > Xen outside of the mainline kernel was not worth it. Perhaps a silly question, but why maintain patches ? Why not compile a new version and discard all the patches ? Patches are a messy manner to maintain programmes. > KVM was not chosen over Xen so much as KVM was a much less expensive > hypervisor to support. As for it being mature or not; Well, put on your > kevlar pants because that is a matter of opinion. Which is better on C5 and C6 ? > As a follow-up, Xen dom0 support began getting into the mainline kernel > at 2.6.33 (EL6 is based on 2.6.32). It is very likely that we will see > Xen dom0 support returned in the next major release. In about 4 or 5 years ??? :-) Regards, Paul.